On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 6 November 2012 12:57, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@gmail.com> wrote: >> CC'ing ubuntu-motu as it heavily affects universe packages. >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:30:52PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>>> I intend to upload libav 9 to raring rather sooner than later. I'm writing >>>> you because: >>>> >>>> - the package is not in debian/unstable yet, but currently sitting in NEW, >>>> targeted at experimental (but syncing is not possible anyway) >>>> - I don't think that there will be a similar fallout like the last big >>>> libav package, but given that some more internal API got dropped and there >>>> are a number of packages in the archive that use deprecated APIs, there >>>> will be some problems. >>>> - I remember that Collin requested such big updates to be announced before >>>> on this mailing list. I'm doing it with this email. >>> >>> I did? I don't remember that particularly ... >>> >>> Anyway, I don't have a problem with this provided that you commit to >>> organising an effort to identify and fix the problems in >>> reverse-dependencies. Last time, other people had to do a lot of work >>> to clean up the mess and it all involved much more disruption than was >>> necessary. >> >> Well, it it not like I had run away last time. Of course I did join >> the effort to fix the resulting mess, but obviously, it was a lot of >> work. Currently, I count over 80 packages that are directly affected >> by this, most of them in universe. >> >> While fixing all packages in main would be no problem for me, I cannot >> commit to fixing all packages in universe and hereby ask for >> assistance. >> > > Please upload into PPA, upload rdepends and wait for them to rebuild. > Find problems together with other interested people. > Please patches or even upload patches into the archive, only then > upload new library into the archive for a quick and smooth transition. > This has worked great with python3.3 transition.
OK, I will create a PPA inside the motumedia team. Anyone who wants to help is welcome! > Possibly setup a transition tracker on > http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/ > (there are a few examples in the branch to try out locally, see the > branch link at the botton of any tracker) Please review and merge this commit: https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/+junk/transition-tracker.libav > >>> >>> (Please note that, assuming you're using the same source package name >>> with a changed set of binary package names, the new -proposed migration >>> system will enforce that this work is done before allowing the new libav >>> into raring; so it is in your interest to make sure that it happens.) >> >> Does the migration system consider only the packages in main, or does >> it require to not break universe? >> > > It requires both and across all architectures (i386, amd64, armel, > armhf and powerpc). OK. then let's start with the PPA and get at least the intel platforms settled. -- regards, Reinhard -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
