[Debian-pan-maintainers] gemmi 0.7

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Roland,

On 2025-01-26 14:34, Roland Mas wrote:
> While packaging dials, I found out that the current release of dials 
> uses features from gemmi that are not available with gemmi 0.6.5 as 
> available in unstable. So I started preparing a package for gemmi 0.7, 
> which I would like to upload or at least submit for review; however, I 
> just found out that there's already a branch named 
> "package-new-upstream-release" in which the changelog contains the 
> following note: "FIXME: Do not upload until trixie is released as 0.6.6 
> breaks at least three of its reverse dependencies.".

Sorry for dropping the ball on gemmi update. I did not have time to run 
ratt as promised [1], but I will do that today.

> Could you list the reverse-dependencies in question so that they can be 
> fixed? I could add that gemmi <= 0.6.5 breaks at least one reverse 
> dependency 🙂

Good point, I did not explicitly enumerate the failing packages. Will do 
that once I finish the ratt run.

To reiterate, I am rather hesitant to push gemmi 0.7.0 at this stage of 
pre-freeze since I have too little spare cycles to fix its reverse 
dependencies. However, if you are willing to do that, we can try.

What do you think about uploading gemmi 0.7.0 to experimental? Would it 
make it easier for you to experiment with its reverse dependencies?

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/gemmi/-/merge_requests/1#note_569300

Best,
Andrius