* Yavor Doganov [Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:23:28 +0200]: > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > So, now my question is: what happens if you rebuild those three > > packages against the new GNUstep libraries, and they migrate to > > testing on their own, before said base libraries and the rest of the > > migrated packages?
> This has happened before (i.e. they almost always migrate first on > their own because there is a bug or two in the rest of the GNUstep > packages that we discover during the transition). It depends. If the > new GNUstep libraries are compatible [1], everything is working > properly. If they are not, some packages are temporarily broken in > testing until the rest of the GNUstep stack migrates. Okay. So, two things. First, that I'm sure you're aware that's a serious bug that ought to be fixed. I don't want to put pressure on you, since I realize the potential for breakage is slow. But it'd be nice to solve it some time. Isn't just linking to the GNUstep libraries as a Debian patch an option? [Insert here sentence about how I'm obsessed with XKCD #276.] Second, the above means we have to either to skip poppler.framework from the initial set of Bin-NMUs, but that's messy since other packages depend on it; or to allow it to migrate to testing and possibly break GNUstep in testing; or to temporarily break it in testing, and rebuild it against the new poppler there; or to reconsider whether GNUstep should wait that the poppler transition finishes, but I don't want to do that. Could you check if a popplerkit.framework rebuilt against the new libraries breaks when used against the current set of packages in testing and unstable? Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org