Hi Emilio, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit le 20/09/2020 à 18:50 : > On 06/09/2020 13:38, Gilles Filippini wrote: >> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit le 06/09/2020 à 12:19 : >>> On 06/09/2020 11:53, Gilles Filippini wrote: >>>> Package: release.debian.org >>>> Severity: normal >>>> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >>>> Usertags: transition >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'd like to transition json-simple 3.1.1 surrently sitting into >>>> experimental. >>>> The name of the library doens't change, but reverse dependencies need a >>>> binnmu. >>> >>> Why is that? >> >> Upstream removed an API that was deprecated long ago and introduced a >> few backward incompatible changes. > > Then it needs a SONAME bump.
There is no such thing in java. I asked the question on the debian-java list whether to change the binary package's name and it was answered that it should be avoidable [1]. I eventually chose not to change it because there are few reverse dependencies. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2020/05/msg00025.html What do you think? _g.
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