On 27 July 2017 at 14:01, Ximin Luo <infini...@debian.org> wrote: > Russell Sim: > > [..] > > > > Thank you for the in depth description it was very helpful. I was > thinking > > the same, but just wanted to clarify. > > > > I have tried to upload a new version, but was blocked because of the same > > FTP ACL as before. I think I should probably look at beginning the DD > > process. In the meantime it would be great if you could sponsor my > upload > > I have pushed it to git [0]. > > > > 0. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/libgit2.git/ > > > > In d/changelog you said this is for unstable, but since other packages in > Debian still link against libgit2 0.24 I think we are supposed to do a > transition: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > > which means I should upload this to experimental first. However I also > notice you already did that previously - did you also already check that > the reverse dependencies also build correctly against 0.25? i.e. these > packages: > > $ echo $(aptitude search --disable-columns -F "%p" '~Dlibgit2-24 ~rnative > !~e^libgit2$') > eeshow fritzing geany-plugin-git-changebar gnome-builder gnuastro kate > kup-backup libgit2-glib-1.0-0 libgnuastro1 libgnuastro2 libkf5texteditor5 > lua-gall python-pygit2 python3-pygit2 ruby-rugged > > If you did the check already, we might be able to upload directly to > unstable, otherwise I think we are supposed to upload to experimental first > and go through the process listed in the "Transitions" page I linked. > > This somewhat lengthy process, is also why I suggested to just package > 0.26 directly and skip 0.25. Sorry, perhaps I should have explained it > earlier. > > (I am fairly new to this process as well, despite me being a DD for > several years I have not maintained a library package myself, that needs > these sorts of rebuilds.) > > X > > -- > GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 > GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE > https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git >
Thanks for the info, I'll follow the document as described. I think i may get some time on Monday to start building and testing the rdepends. In the meantime could you please upload 0.26.0+dfsg.1-1 to experimental, I've pushed it to the collab-maint git. -- Cheers, Russell Sim
