On 2024-03-06 12:53:02 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 01:43:11AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:33:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > > Are there instructions on how to progress an unstable system through
> > > > > this, or is the repo currently in a known inconsistent state?  I have
> > > > > tried upgrading various packages to work through deps but I am unable
> > > > > to do a dist-upgrade for a while.
> > > > Being unable to do a dist-upgrade is expected and some packages can't be
> > > > installed or can't be upgraded, but in general on amd64 you should be 
> > > > able
> > > > to upgrade a majority of them with `apt upgrade` and then manual
> > > > installing/upgrading, if you wish so (as in theory most libfoo0t64 are
> > > > drop-in replacements for libfoo0, but in practice some packages have
> > > > additional abi deps for their plugins etc., plus the usual amd64-i386
> > > > skews, plus some unique problems in some packages).
> > > > Also debootstrapping sid is broken, or may be broken from time to time.
> > > > Install testing instead if that's good enough.
> 
> > > Aside from the libuuid1t64 revert, for which binNMUs have been scheduled, 
> > > I
> > > actually would expect unstable to be dist-upgradeable on non-32-bit archs:
> > > either the existing non-t64 library will be kept installed because nothing
> > > yet needs the t64 version, or something does want the t64 version and apt
> > > will accept it as a replacement for the non-t64 version because it 
> > > Provides:
> > > the non-t64 name.
> 
> > > So once the libuuidt64 revert is done (later today?), if apt dist-upgrade 
> > > is
> > > NOT working, I think we should want to see some apt output showing what's
> > > not working.
> > On my system there is currently only one problem not related to libuuid:
> > vlc-plugin-pipewire is not rebuilt for vlc-plugin-abi-3-0-0ft64. As for
> > uuid, I have several i386 libraries installed that depend on it.
> 
> That seems like a case where the maintainer (cc:ed) could add the
> vlc-plugin-abi-3-0-0f Provides: on 64-bit archs for backwards-compatibility
> to unblock.  Or someone can just request binNMUs for this package sooner
> rather than later.  (It's premature to request mass binNMUs yet while arm*
> are still being re-bootstrapped.)

The Provides in this case would not be enough as it directly maps to the
symbol postfix used by the plugin loader. I'd also need the
corresponding #ifdef to only switch the symbol postfix on the affected
architectures.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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