Hi Julien, On 09/04/2015 02:08 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Hi, > > I need some mentoring for my first library transition. I have a hard > time getting exactly what the page on transitions explains > (https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions). > > The source package is flint, and produced libflint-2.4.5 ; now it > produces libflint-2.5.2 -- both can coexist. > > There is a single reverse dependency, which is singular -- and I checked > singular is only a recompilation away from using the newer version of > flint. > > Tobias (Hansen) pushed the new version in experimental and it cleared > off NEW, so the ball is rolling. > > The second step is "Ensure it builds on all architectures in testing, > where it built previously." -- it doesn't say exactly how I'm supposed > to check that. >
In the PTA on the right hand side there is a link "buildd: exp": https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=flint&suite=experimental It failed to build on i386 (and also other 32 bit architectures on ports) so I guess that should be resolved first. > The third step is about getting a transition tracker. I have it > (https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-flint.html) ! But the > page says that if it's not useful I should generate an applicable one. I > have no clue how one generates an "applicable one" even though the one I > have looks quite useless: > - it says there are bad depends -- libflint-2.4.5 isn't bad, as it can > coexist with libflint-2.5.2 ; > - it doesn't list singular as needed anything, even though it should ; > - it says it can't smooth update because libflint-2.4.5 being neither in > libs nor oldlibs -- what does that even mean ? > It looks pretty fine to me. - libflint-2.4.5 is "bad" because it will be replaced by this transition. We want to have it gone from unstable. Otherwise you would have renamed the source package. - singular is in the list, no problem. - I'm not sure what smooth-update means (maybe a function of some tool), but you should set "Section: libs" in debian/control for the lib package. Since you just forgot to do that, the information that smooth-update is not possible might be wrong. Best, Tobias
