On 09-11-15 18:21, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 06/11/15 15:06, Bas Couwenberg wrote: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: transition >> Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-gsl.html >> >> An uncoordinated transition to GSL 2.0 has started in unstable. >> >> It caused nco to FTBFS and I suspect other reverse dependencies will >> likewise need to be updated to build successfully with gsl (2.0+dfsg-1). >> >> The automatically created transition tracker is already available. >> >> The maintainer is CC'ed. > > Any idea how many packages fail to build against the new version? Not speaking > of how many need to change the build dependencies from libgsl0-dev (>= x.y) to > libgsl-dev, but of build failures in all the rdeps due to API changes.
I haven't tested any gsl rdeps other than those maintained by the Debian GIS team, and those rebuilds are already available in unstable. Can we binNMU the remaining rdeps and see what breaks? Or should Dirk or someone else first rebuild the rdeps themselves before this transition can move on? Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1