Bug#929325: libmseed2: New upstream version (requires a transition)

[Paride Legovini]

On Tue, 21 May 2019 19:03:39 +0200 Paride Legovini <pl at ninthfloor.org>
wrote:
> Package: libmseed2
> Version: 2.19.6-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Upstream is going to release a new major version of the library: libmseed3.
> For the moment the 3.x tags are marked as pre-releases on GitHub.
> Once released as stable and once Debian is out of the freeze I'll package the
> new version and request the transition. Progress will be tracker here.

Apparently the two tools in Debian depending on libmseed (sac2mseed and
mseed2sac, which I maintain in the Science team) do not support
libmseed3 yet. Upstream ships them with a "vendored" version of
libmseed2 within their source tree, which is excluded from the Debian
source package as we want to use the packaged version.

I have the packaging for libmseed3 ready and I will upload it to
experimental at some point (it needs to go through NEW as there's a new
binary package), however there is no strong reason to do so urgently.

Paride