Bug#912914: gap breaks multiple autopkgtests

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 20/12/2018 12:32, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 22:17:45 +0100 Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 09:57:59PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> With a recent upload of gap the autopkgtest of gap-float, gap-guava,
>>> gap-io, gap-laguna, gap-openmath, gap-scscp and gap-sonata fail in
>>> testing when their autopkgtests are run with the binary packages of gap
>>> from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In
>>> tabular form:
> 
> Nearly the same is now happening with your upload of gap/4r10p0-3.

Indeed, I will have a look this week-end.


> 
>> However, I am not the author of this autopkgtest and I do not maintain
>> gap-float etc. and I have notified the maintainers in advance of the
>> migration to GAP 4r9, so I expect them to deal with this issue, since it
>> was expected.
> 
> I assume you have informed your reverse dependencies again.
> 
> Trying to be helpful... Apparently in the gap ecosystem, packages need
> to migrate in lockstep. I am wondering, can't you change the packaging,
> such that this is recognized as a (sort of) transition? If you can't
> rename the "library" package in a similar way as libraries do in Debian,
> you could provide a API virtual package that your reverse dependencies
> depend on (potentially embedded during build, than the package has a
> chance of only requiring a binNMU; I don't know the gap ecosystem if
> that is feasible). Than at least the migration software knows to hold of
> the migration until all packages are ready, even without those
> autopkgtest failures.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

Cheers,
Jerome

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