Le lun. 28 mars 2022 à 16:24, Pierre Gruet <p...@debian.org> a écrit :
> > Hello everyone, > > Recently I worked on biojava-live (locally, pushed nothing to Salsa), > which currently has version 1.7.1. Upstream is active and published > version 1.9.5 of this "legacy" biojava, which is still used by many > software: four reverse dependencies in Debian (alien-hunter, artemis, > logol, mauve-aligner), which cannot depend on modern biojava5-live > because classes have changed so much in between. > mmmm, biojava3, 4 etc... broke many things and required to create biojava3, biojava4 deb packages but we could expect that version 1 does not break things between versions.... > > I would like to upgrade to version 1.9.5, which would mean: > - keeping the same source package but pushing new binary package > libbiojava1.9-java to NEW, conflicting with and replacing > libbiojava1.7-java; > - making a source upload of the four reverse dependencies afterwards. > > About this last point: I am able to build the four reverse dependencies > against this biojava 1.9.5, few changes are necessary: mainly the names > of the jars, which have changed between 1.7.1 and 1.9.5. Enclosed are > the source debdiffs of the needed changes for the four reverse > dependencies. > > > Is it OK for you if I upgrade to 1.9.5 and then I take care of the > reverse dependencies? > that's fine for me Olivier > > I am explicitly CC-ing the current uploaders of biojava-live, and I plan > to add myself to this list of uploaders. > > Best regards, > > -- > Pierre > > > -- gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438
