Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
I'd like to transition the archive to Xapian 1.4 before the next release. There are packages of xapian-core 1.4.0 in experimental. I maintain xapian-bindings and xapian-omega, and packages of 1.4.0 for those are also in experimental. All three packages have built on all release architectures: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=xapian-bindings+xapian-core+xapian-omega&suite=experimental I've test rebuilt the other reverse dependencies and they all built cleanly with the exception of: * pinot - this FTBFS in unstable due to GCC 6 (RC bug #812165) and (as I've noted in that bug) when I patch that and rebuild against xapian-core 1.4.0 the resulting binary segfaults when run, due to something which appears to be related to symbol mangling. Since Xapian is GPLv2+ and pinot also links to openssl the package doesn't appear to be distributable anyway (RC bug #833692), and pinot has already been removed from testing, so this doesn't seem like a blocker for the transition. * libsearch-xapian-perl - this needs a patch for compatibility with xapian-core 1.4. I have just completed such a patch, which I'm going to apply upstream, so depending when the transition is schedule we can either apply the patch or package a newer upstream version if one has been released by then. I'm an uploader for this package, so can easily do either. The auto-generated tracker looks good to me: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-xapian-core.html Cheers, Olly
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