[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#897784: Now gcc-8 errors caused by non-fitting symbols file became serious

[Julien Yann Dutheil]

Dear Andreas,

Update is (almost) ready upstream. Have a question though: when a program
has not changed but needs to be rebuilt against the newest version of the
library, can I just increase the package version number, or should I also
increase the program version number?

Example: physamp is currently in version 1.1.0. No changes has been made
but it needs to be recompiled to work with Bio++ 2.4.1. (Was 2.4.0 before).
Should the new physamp package be called 1.1.0-2 or 1.1.1-1 ?

Best,

Julien.

PS: autopkgtests are on the TODO list...


On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:48 AM Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Julien,
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 09:19:50AM +0200, Julien Yann Dutheil wrote:
> > Will make a new release then, but I will only be able to start the
> process
> > in the second week of August.
>
> While this will mean that the packages will be autoremoved from testing
> after 10 days I do not think that this is big harm in general since they
> will come back later.  BTW, if you would add some autopkgtest the
> migration time will be reduced to 2 days.
>
> Another note: In the second week of August I'm back from DebConf.
> That's the time where I restrict my computertime drastically to recover
> a bit from that intense time. :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.
>
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:04 AM Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:33:33PM +0200, Julien Yann Dutheil wrote:
> > > > Many thanks for your email. I have fixed gcc8 warnings upstream some
> time
> > > > ago. Would it make things easier if I would just make a new minor
> release
> > >
> > > Since the packaging might become more easy since no patches will be
> > > needed I'd regard this the most simple solution packaging wise (no idea
> > > how much effort it might be on your side).  May be also non-Debian
> users
> > > might profit from full gcc-8 compatibility.
> > >
> > > > (there will be no interface break, due to a new management strategy
> > > > upstream... hopefully we learn from our mistakes :) ) ?
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>


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