[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Incompatible API coming, in “python-daemon >= 2”

[Ben Finney]

On 05-Jun-2015, Ben Finney wrote:

> Please check the package you maintain to see whether it is
> compatible with upstream ‘python-daemon’ version 2 or later.
> 
> If the package is compatible only with earlier ‘python-daemon’
> versions, I recommend declaring this in the package metadata. A
> field “Depends: python-daemon (<= 1.6)” would be good.
> 
> If there is an upstream version of your package that is compatible
> *only* with ‘python-daemon’ version 2 or later, please package that
> version with “Depends: python-daemon (>= 2)”.
> 
> The backward-incompatible ‘python-daemon’ will likely be uploaded
> into Debian within a few weeks.

This change is now imminent. Release “2.0.5-1” of the package is
finalised and will be entering Debian Sid.

If your package depends on an obsolete API from ‘python-daemon’ it
will need to be fixed for this new version.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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