[re-adding debian-release] On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 22:34:47 +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 16.08.2018, 10:10 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau: > > On 08/16/2018 07:32 AM, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > for the package sane-backends I ask my sponsor to upload it into > > > experimental, but it was uploaded into sid. > > > > > > All rebuilds against libsane1 on amd64 are tested and ok. > > > > > > What further action is proposed by you? > > > > Did the ABI actually change from the previous version? > > Yes, see attached diff. A lot of functions are not longer available. > That diff doesn't really prove anything by itself but OK. > > If yes, why did > > the SONAME not change? > > I don't know. That's a question for upstream. > No, it's a question for you as the packager of that library. Answering it properly may involve educating upstream about proper library hygiene, but it's not something you can just avoid answering. > > If not, then the package rename is wrong and > > needs to be reverted. > > > > It is certainly not wrong to reflect the SONAME in the name of the > binary parcel. And it's a good programming style. > Having package name reflect SONAME is good practice for a new library. It's absolutely bad practice to change package names for that single reason, as your changelog implies happened here. Cheers, Julien
