Accepted coinmp 1.8.4+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

[Pierre Gruet]

Hi Rene,

Le 21/11/2024 à 00:18, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Am 20.11.24 um 22:25 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 20.11.24 um 17:19 schrieb Debian FTP Masters:
>>>  coinmp (1.8.4+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>>>  .
>>>    * Team upload
>>>    * Upload to unstable to start the library transition
>>
>> Just that it is questionable whether one needed one at all as other 
>> distros apparently still get a .so.1 out of 1.8.4.
>>
>> However they did that.... I wonder whether something is fishy here...
>>
>>
>> That's why I didn't upload it (yet) to sid.. If you asked me I would 
>> have said that.
>>

If I understand correctly, you think better coordination would have been 
useful there. Sorry for not doing so, next time I will.

> 
> Oh, and because of the "autoreconf fails" issue which I *temporarily* 
> (implied by "for now"
> in "remoremove autotools-dev usage (for now)" in 1.8.4-1) worked around 
> by not using
> autotools-dev.
> 
> This then was changed to dh 10 without autoreconf in 1.8.4+dfsg-1 back 
> in 2020.
> As long as this was in experimental, that was OK, but for unstable a 
> non-working autoreconf is bad.
> What if we ever need to change it for architecture stuff?

Sorry, I am not sure to get the problem. Skipping autoreconf has been a 
current practice for coinor packages for many years, see coinor-cbc, 
coinor-cgl, coinor-osi, ... for instance. And this has not revealed to 
be problematic.

> 
> Maybe the person who did all uploads so far (and this package was 
> introduced by me initially solely
> for libreoffice, and has no other r-dep) should have been asked...

I admit this. Still, we had the upload of 1.8.4+dfsg-1 by Andreas in 
experimental, no open bug about the packaging, no note in the debian/ 
directory, which is why I just assumed I should go on after checking 
libreoffice builds against coinmp/1.8.4+dfsg.
But sure, next time in such situation I would coordinate.

I commit to monitor the transition and fix things if problems show up, 
which I don't expect.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Rene

Best,

-- 
Pierre
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