Bug#891872: transition: curl

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Sat Jul 28 09:11:47 BST 2018


On 25/07/18 22:01, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2018-07-25 10:47:50 [+0200], Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>> Any suggestions from the D-Science folks?
>>
>> Maybe send this to the scilab bug rather than the curl transition one?
> 
> I Cced the scilab folks. I was more interrested in the release team's
> opinion if it is worth fixing those and get it built in order to
> complete the curl transition or if it does not make sense (to fix only
> one of those RC bugs) and breaking the package (i.e. removing libcurl3
> from unstable) would be an option.

We never break packages in testing (unless it's a critical situation, and this
obviously isn't). Also the cruft package in unstable doesn't hurt much, so it
can be left around for a while longer. What we want to do here is to get rid of
the old library in testing in order to finish the transition there: the only two
options for that are to remove scilab or to fix it. Given it's a key package and
probably has rdeps that'd mean the latter.

Cheers,
Emilio



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