On 2018-03-31 19:56 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2018-03-26 1:54 GMT+02:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
> <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>:
>
>>> I intend to file a transition bug for ncurses tomorrow. If you can
>>> finish the changes for libcwidget4 until Easter, that's probably
>>> sufficiently early, but I have also come up with a backup plan: declare
>>> a versioned Breaks against aptitude and bump shlibs in libcwidget3v5.
>>> This requires uploads for both cwidget and aptitude, but does not need
>>> to through NEW.
>>>
>>> See these branches for cwidget and aptitude:
>>> https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/cwidget/commits/ncurses6
>>> https://salsa.debian.org/joachim-guest/aptitude/commits/ncurses6
>>
>> That's good. Sorry for not being more responsive, but I am massively
>> snowed under.
>>
>> I was leaving this precisely for Easter, because I have like 5 days of
>> holidays in total :)
>
> I think shlib bumping is a better plan than waiting for an unknown
> time in the NEW queue, although for new binary package names it's
> usually a short wait.
If you have a libcwidget4 package ready, don't hesitate to upload it to
experimental. This gives me at least something to show in bug #894049,
where I haven't received a reply yet.
> So I have to wait to upload cwidget until the new ncurses gets the
> green light and enters unstable, right?
For uploads to unstable, yes. This holds for both plans (SONAME change or
shlibs bump + Breaks against aptitude).
Cheers,
Sven
