Please binNMU polybori against libm4ri-0.0.20140914
Jonathan Wiltshire
jmw at debian.org
Mon Oct 20 21:26:57 UTC 2014
On 2014-10-20 22:15, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> This is a library transition. We stopped accepting library transitions
>> some weeks ago. Do you have a Really Good Reason (tm) for your upload?
>
> I have some;
> - libm4ri and libm4rie change their SONAME at every release. However,
> the interface to the library hasn't changed for a long time. Those
> libraries should move to a saner SONAME handling.
> Upstream is aware of that:
> https://bitbucket.org/malb/m4ri/issue/51/move-to-saner-soname
> https://bitbucket.org/malb/m4rie/issue/16/move-to-saner-soname
> but nothing has been done yet.
> So, so to speak, it isn't a real library transition. At least, I
> (wrongly) didn't consider it as one.
Ok, I'll accept "upstream is mad" as a good reason :) This is clearly
unavoidable.
Since it's only one package and you've done the testing of polybori
already, I'll schedule the rebuild this time.
Could you please remember to open a binNMU bug next time so your mail
doesn't risk being lost on the list?
Thanks,
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