On 2020-12-15 Niels Möller wrote: > Hi, I wonder if it would make sense to try to cut a release pretty soon > (and without any arm64 changes)? Previous release was made end of April, > and there's been quite a few improvements since then.
> I wonder if it is possible to make a release in time for the upcoming > debian release? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/11/msg00002.html > Nettle-3.7 should be abi-compatible, and with unchanged soname, so I'm > not sure if it would count as a "transition" in the debian world. Hello, it would not count as transition https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#transition | When changes in a package cause the need for changes in other | packages, we call this a 'transition'. The most common example is | a library transition. Transitions require coordination between | maintainers and can take a long time to finish, especially when bugs | are discovered during the transition. Unfinished transitions can block | the migration of unrelated fixes in the packages involved in the | transition. From the start of the Transition and (build-)essentials | Freeze, it's no longer appropriate to start new transitions. A "library transition" happens after a soname-bump, all reverse dependencies need to be rebuilt against the new version and if the API also changed incompatibly require source changes. cu And- I am not hinting that delaying a release until after the start of the transition freeze would be welcome ;-)-reas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
