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On 03/08/2015 22:51, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 03-07-15 15:12, Matthias Klose wrote: >> - If a library transition is needed, please prepare for the change. >> Rename the library package, append "v5" to the name of the package >> (e.g. libfoo2 -> libfoo2v5). Such a change can be avoided, if you >> have a soversion bump and you upload this version instead of the >> renamed package. Prepare a patch and attach it to this issue (mark >> this issue with patch), so that it is possible to NMU such a >> package. We'll probably have more than hundred transitions >> triggered. Then reassign the issue to release.debian.org and >> properly tag it as a transition issue, by sending an email to >> [email protected]: >> >> user [email protected] >> usertag <this issue> + transition >> block <this issue> by 790756 >> reassign <this issue> release.debian.org > > To be on the safe side we should assume a transition is required. > > Unfortunately libterralib is not very actively maintained, so I had a > look into this issue as part of team maintenance. > > The previous Uploaders are included in the CC for their view on the > license issues that were uncovered in the process. > > I started on the package by creating a git repository and importing all > previous releases because the Subversion repository on Alioth is very > outdated: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/libterralib.git > > I've updated the package for the move to Git, and renamed the library > package to include the SOVERSION for which a bug was outstanding > (#701143). This is helpfull to avoid appending v5 to the package name, > this SONAME fix suffices. > > While updating the copyright file using copyright-format 1.0, I noticed > some non-free issues that will need repacking of the orig.tar.gz at least: > > * src/DSDK/* > > > * src/terralib/drivers/Oracle/* > > > > We'll need to resolve these license issues for the GCC 5 related upload > to not be rejected from the NEW queue. > > I'm having a hard time figuring out how the orig tarball was created, it > looks like the build/ directory is from the upstream v-4-0-0 SVN tag > because the v-4-3-0 tag only includes the cmake subdirectory. The src/ > and examples/ directories seem from different tags too. Yes, this came from a tag as upstream seem to have dropped issuing new tarballs. > > The Debian package build uses the build/qt4/ build system, so using only > the current upstream tag is not going to work. A get-orig-source target > to create the tarball would have been nice. Will investigate. > > > It seems that the SOVERSION in the package name was not the only change > that got lost along the way, the changelog for libterralib (3.3.1-2) > includes: > > * Remove unused and copyright-troublesome Oracle, DSDK , MySQL, > PostgreSQL sources. > > It looks like everything under src/ except src/terralib/ can be dropped > from the upstream tarball which would get rid of the non-free DSDK, but > the problematic drivers under src/terralib/drivers/ need to removed too. > The build system will need to be patched for that some more. > > @Alastair, as the most active uploader of libterralib and its reverse > dependencies, how do you want to deal with these license issues and the > GCC 5 transition? Ok, will do. I'm using libterralib in the metview package. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > Regards Alastair - -- Alastair McKinstry, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Software is like Poetry - most of it shouldn't have been written. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVwHRQAAoJEMvmu05dmtOl7wcP/1rYm8FnNIT8J+KjPCYteOVa 21PECbk15SiEz+2hOPNGOZVawYJUPU2cd1Pqv4jd+hORhnZpYQACqcJ/P4KByz9U jJHIAlV+0eCFF11sEJCcpBDpWiMKTqI0MbAjxMlEWjCqSklMcwx+Pz42MuuTzagQ UZmuy2UjW3E2iks4/ow9oPS/iM/xVT9urYcb1EuqdqMkXhNbGXIUeE6zhcHU2lh+ QbkN/Px8qSjyhzJUO9+O8hNtlfAiJMbcBFn39FU6LQqUfjouUDhuF9v6euJA6jDS knCqt9OWAh9J+cnL9Rve9JtLCvfHVx+wqSKrBB+IBydImnsfZoQyPudE6V9Zs6u0 7tOB63U+EdGwET4QW6u+9pv0uHxc49r6ivFxLmGBYWt75Cm1F95OO+p4LgnDfU0S A3W0YCwNQRKe7p+XA2iHtdcWTQ7aOCtxfOBJhgvFQxi14dRbessGbsVDdv7CANtw xIbiE0QXoHK0rxDzeliYJqT6emaUakHquxAPfX1l9penkmKA2khhBnqKu8m5XuJV ujO7/ehZd5wUVl7nHBxgHobrN33m8ksVWUXiR7DH2tErF06dsHQ9QayCW37roVvu T3Yip1jhnJiqOlyExQWB5L/FE1RcFXFiO5qN95ewT8SCOp3MSpaIilyAwNoINskk 9b1JVGTU5ekoz0nauS68 =s6IB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
