On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:53:04 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 19.08.2015 um 01:55 schrieb Simon McVittie: > > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 at 13:04:27 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> I would like to request a transition for bullet due to a SONAME bump in > >> the latest version 2.83.5 as soon as GCC 5 is the new default. > > > > A version of 2.83.5 built with gcc 4 is in testing, and rdeps have already > > been built against it, so I think you're going to need "v5" package names. > > > > I am not a release team member, but I believe the current policy is that > > you may/should upload any time after your C++ build-dependencies have > > transitioned. In the case of bullet, the only C++ build-dep seems to be > > tinyxml, which has had libtinyxml2.6.2v5 arrive on all architectures; > > so you should be clear to proceed. > > > > If you are not a DD, you will need a sponsor (DMs can't upload new > > package names). I am in pkg-games and could sponsor an upload that > > you stage in git, or start the transition myself, if required. > > I wonder why we cannot just rebuild the library and request binNMU's for > the small number of reverse-dependencies since we already had a SONAME > and package name change in the last two weeks. Changing the package > names again seems to be a bit like overkill for bullet. > That previous SONAME bump made it to testing, I'd rather not have to track bullet's new transition specially, that's going to be a lot of pain for a fairly insignificant benefit.
Cheers, Julien
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