[Debian-med-packaging] PDL 2.016 - transition from pdlapi-10 to pdlapi-12

[Andreas Tille]

0-day NMU (or team upload) are perfectly fine.

Thanks for your work on this

     Andreas.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 05:10:20PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> PDL has been moved to the Debian Perl team along with
> libpdl-io-hdf5-perl and libpdl-netcdf-perl. [0] The packages have been
> updated to the latest upstream releases and incorporate current
> packaging best practices.
> 
> As part of the update to PDL 2.016 a transition is required because the
> virtual pdlapi package provided by pdl was bumped from pdlapi-10 to
> pdlapi-12.
> 
> All pdl reverse dependencies built successfully with the PDL 2.016
> packages available in experimental as summarized below.
> 
> Not all reverse dependencies were using dh_pdl to set the dependency on
> the virtual pdlapi package, these have all been fixed in git. All
> reverse dependencies have changes available in git to modernize the
> packaging, these will be uploaded to unstable as part of the pdl transition.
> 
> I'd like to ask permission for a 0-day NMU of libtfbs-perl from the
> Debian Med team to have it migrate to testing at the same time as the
> other packages involved in the pdl transition instead of after a 10 day
> delay. I intent to upload the changes reported in #827499 [1],
> additionally the build dependency for pdl will require at least version
> 2.016 to ensure the buildds don't build with the old version.
> 
> Next Friday, June 24th, I intent to upload pdl (1:2.016-1) to unstable,
> and upload all reverse dependencies (re)built with pdl (1:2.016-1) too.
> 
> If explicit permission for a 0-day NMU of libtfbs-perl is not received
> before the start of the transition, libtfbs-perl (0.7.0+dfsg-1.1) will
> be uploaded to DELAYED/10 instead (per Dev Ref section 5.11 [2]).
> 
> libtfbs-perl currently lacks the dependency on the virtual pdlapi
> package, because it was not using dh_pdl yet. This prevents libtfbs-perl
> from blocking testing migration of the other packages, a fortunate
> side-effect.
> 
> 
> [0]
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/2016-June/099701.html
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/827499
> [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#nmu
> 
> 
> Transition: pdl
> 
>  pdl (1:2.007-5) -> pdl (1:2.016-1)
>  pdlapi-10       -> pdlapi-12
> 
> The status of the most recent rebuilds is as follows.
> 
>  libpdl-graphics-gnuplot-perl (2.005-3)        OK
>  libpdl-io-hdf5-perl          (1:0.73-1)       OK
>  libpdl-io-matlab-perl        (0.005-2)        OK
>  libpdl-linearalgebra-perl    (0.12-2)         OK
>  libpdl-netcdf-perl           (4.20-2)         OK
>  libpdl-stats-perl            (0.75-1~exp1)    OK
>  libtfbs-perl                 (0.7.0+dfsg-1.1) OK
> 
> Please note that these are mostly UNRELEASED version from git.
> 
> For libtfbs-perl the NMU from #827499 was used.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 
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