Bug#721509: nmu: binNMU for libgtkdatabox rdepends

[Felipe Castro]

Sorry, just a guess of mine, not something to packagers deal with. It is
maybe something on the source code. See the info about libtool, versioning
system.


2013/9/2 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>

> Hi,
>
> I admit I have no idea what you expect me (main Uploader) to do.  Please
> explain and I'll try to be as quick as possible to do so.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 05:50:12PM -0300, Felipe Castro wrote:
> > Maybe a problem with the libtool versioning, I had warned the upstream
> > about something similar to it a long time ago...
> >
> >
> > 2013/9/1 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> >
> > > Am 01.09.2013 19:03, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> > > > On Sun, Sep  1, 2013 at 15:05:22 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Package: release.debian.org
> > > >> Severity: normal
> > > >> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
> > > >> Usertags: binnmu
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> afaics, the rdeps of libgtkdatabox are currently blocking the cruft
> > > removal of
> > > >> libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-1 [1] and in turn glade-3
> > > >>
> > > >> Both libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-dev and libgtkdatabox-0.9.2-dev provide
> > > >> libgtkdatabox-dev, so I think a binNMU should be sufficient.
> > > >>
> > > > I'm not sure that's going to work.  Why is the -dev package versioned
> > > > anyway?
> > >
> > > No idea, I'm not the maintainer (CCed)
> > >
> > > That said, I've asked ftp-masters to do a partial removal and get rid
> of
> > > libgtkdatabox-0.9.1-dev from sid. See #721512, which I marked as
> blocker
> > > for this bug after asking basically the same question on #debian-buildd
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Michael
> > >
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