Bug#850027: libfreeimage3: freeimage 3.17.0+ds1-4 makes rviz unusable

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 12:27 +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/01/17 12:11, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:37:47 +0100 Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: libfreeimage3
> > > Followup-For: Bug #850027
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > is there anything I can do to speed this up? Would be nice to get rviz back ;).
> > > 
> > > Cheers Jochen
> > 
> > I now have very limited time for this and there is yet to be a
> > definitive agreement on how to proceed.
> > 
> > I believe Anton proposed to upload to experimental first, test
> > the rdepends and attempt a transition to unstable, although time may be
> > short.
> > 
> > Another solution could be to just make the upload to unstable, monitor
> > the autopkgtests of the rdepends and cross our fingers? I don't know.
> 
> Most packages don't have autopkgtests so manual testing is going to be
> required anyway.
> 
> I think you should just upload it to unstable. Experimental is useful if
> you want to test the rdeps, but if you do not have a lot of time then
> unstable is better since other people will test it a lot more.
> 
> > You guys have much more experience than I have so you are in a better
> > position to advise and act, I guess.
> > 
> > Please CC me in the future as I am not automatically subscribed for
> > some reason.
> 
> Unfortunately uploaders don't get automatically subscribed to the BTS (I
> think that should be improved at some point). To subscribe manually, go
> to this page and hit "Subscribe" in the top-right corner:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/freeimage
> 
> Thanks,
> James

If there is no objections by the end of the day, I will prepare an
upload to unstable with James' patch.

Cheers,
Ghis