[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#897785: Now gcc-8 errors caused by non-fitting symbols file became serious

[Andreas Tille]

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 :) ) ?

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