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I've created a NMU to handle updating this package should the original
maintainer need help with the update. The changelog is as follows:
libsmbios (2.0.3-0.1) unstable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload.
* New upstream release for compatibility with
linux kernel 2.6.26 (Closes: #494316)
* Changed libsmbios1 -> 2 due to soname change (ABI break)
* Dropped libsmbiosxml1 - removed upstream (no rdepends in Debian)
* Removed automatic libtool upgrades as it horribly, horribly, horribly
breaks the build (Closes: #491795)
* Added symbol file for new library soname
* Bumped standards version to 3.8.0
* Added dependency on chrpath (used to remoth rpaths on amd64/ia64)
-- Michael Casadevall Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:28:04 -0400
libsmbiosxml which was dropped had no rdepends outside of this source package
libsmbios1 has one rdepend on hal. hal builds and links correctly
against libsmbios2, it simply will require a binNMU to finish the
transition. Its confirmed to build successfully on i386 and amd64.
The 0.13.13 -> 2.0.3 package has been tested on amd64, and upgrades
without any issues from 0.13.13 to 2.0.3. the libsmbios1 package can
be removed once hal is rebuilt pending this upload.
debdiff is attached between the two versions. It should be noted that
the amount of source changes is actually relatively smaller then it
might first seem since a large amount of the changes comes from
autotools being updated, and libsmbiosxml being removed (which
accounts for 25% of the diff size alone not counting autotools
changes)
Upstream Changelog:
* Wed Jan 9 2008 Michael E Brown - 2.0.0
- - ABI incompatible, minor API changes
- - sync up libsmbios soname with version #
- - move binaries to /usr/sbin as they are only runnable by root
- - drop libsmbiosxml lib as it was mostly unused.
- - drop autotools generated files out of git and add autogen.sh
- - drop tokenCtl binary-- pysmbios has a *much* improved version
* Wed Aug 22 2007 Michael E Brown - 0.13.9
- - Fix a couple of failure-to-check-return on fopen. most were unit-test code
only, but two or three were in regular code.
- - Add hinting to the memory class, so that it can intelligently close /dev/mem
file handle when it is not needed (which is most of the time). it only
leaves it open when it is scanning, so speed is not impacted.
Notes:
There are some other outstanding lintian issues with this package that
were not addressed, but they are at best minor, and are not within the
scope of the NMU. If the maintainer of this package however would like
to see fixes for them in addition to everything else, then I'd be glad
to help.
The watch file is currently broken (goes with above).
I have no intention to upload (nor ability, since I'm still a NM) this
package without either approval from the release team, or approval
from the maintainer. I created this updated package as a convince to
the former should it be necessary.
The package itself is available here on mentors:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsmbios/
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