Bug#766903: reclass: ABI changed: should not enter testing before reverse dependency adapted

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jonas Smedegaard  [2014-10-26 20:50 +0100]:
> How does that plan sound to you?

Sounds fine. Speak to you in 9 days…

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Bug#766903: reclass: ABI changed: should not enter testing before reverse dependency adapted

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-10-26 19:14:23)
> Reclass 1.4 changes backwards-incompatibly its data format - 
> specifically changing default class name from "index" to "".
[...]
> Reclass 1.4-1 should therefore not enter testing before its reverse 
> dependency has been adapted to use the new ABI.
> 
> Alternatively, reclass could be adapted to support the previous 
> "index" as fallback when "init" does not exist: That would be adequate 
> for use by boxer, since the new "init" happens to not be used in the 
> boxer-data classes currently in Debian.

Update: I now released boxer-data 6 adapted to reclass 1.4 ABI.

I suggest the following plan:

 1) We keep this bug open and at high severity until we can reasonably
estimate which packages will enter testing before freeze.
(Release team probably announces when "freze - 10 days" is passed)
2a) If likely that both reclass and boxer-data will make it in time, we 
close this bugreport.
2b) If likely that reclass will make it in time but not boxer-data, we
keep this bugreport open and request freeze exception, referring to
this bugreport as the reason.
 3) If estimate turned out to be wrong, we reopen this bugreport and 
request freeze exception.

How does that plan sound to you?

 - Jonas

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Bug#766903: reclass: ABI changed: should not enter testing before reverse dependency adapted

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: reclass
Version: 1.4-1
Severity: grave

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Reclass 1.4 changes backwards-incompatibly its data format -
specifically changing default class name from "index" to "".

This change is not mentioned in upstream changelog at
 but documented in
the commit :

>  Use "init" as directory index
>
> The docs mentioned 'init' (which is consistent with Salt and Python),
> but somehow I made that 'index' in the code.

The package "reeclass" has one reverse dependency, boxer, which is a
build-dependency of two source packages debian-design and debian-parl,
both of which FTBFS as a consequence of this change.

Reclass 1.4-1 should therefore not enter testing before its reverse
dependency has been adapted to use the new ABI.

Alternatively, reclass could be adapted to support the previous "index"
as fallback when "init" does not exist: That would be adequate for use
by boxer, since the new "init" happens to not be used in the boxer-data
classes currently in Debian.


 - Jonas

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