On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 12:29:45PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello,
> >Great!
> 
> please check and close the various RC bugs to let this one migrate :)

You should have closed them in the upload.

> >Beware, for 3.12.0, you need to change the source package name too, not just 
> >the binares,
> >otherwise nlohmann-json3 3.11.3 will be removed by the archive system once 
> >it reaches sid.
> >
> >I can help you identifying packages that can migrate to 3.12.0.
> 
> Changes already committed on experimental branch if you want to double check 
> :)

Well, precisely, in experimental, the source package name is still called 
nlohmann-json3

> will push to bin-new when I get a full build done.

> Just to make sure:
> 1) I don't plan to maintain 3.11 at all, cherry-picking rebasing and 
> identifying patches was a real nightmare, and this will be more
> and more difficult to do in the future
> 
> 2) I would like to have an RC bug against 3.11 at some point in the future to 
> make sure people migrate to 3.12

Again this is not an option. All you will achieve is packages vendoring
nlohmann-json3 instead of using the package. 

The only option is to work with upstream to commit to a fixed ABI. There is no
point going round and round.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[email protected]>

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