[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#958841: Bug#959505: release.debian.org: Is erlang autoremoval is necessary?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:02:11PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Alright, then I recommend this:
> >     reassign 958841 src:erlang 1:22.3.2+dfsg-1
> >     clone 958841 -1
> >     reassign -1 src:elixir-lang 1.9.1.dfsg-1.3
> >     retitle -1 elixir-lang: incompatible with erlang 22
> >     # consider also leaving a longer message somewhere…?
> >     close 958841 1:22.3.3+dfsg-1
> > 
> > Doing that should live a RC bug in elixir-lang, and cause its autorm in
> > a while, and leave erlang where it is, letting it migrate to testing as
> > soon as elixir-lang is out.  The rm from testing of elixir-lang could be
> > expedited if nothing happens.
> 
> I agree with this approach. It leaves the maintainers of elixir-lang
> some time to fix the situation. If they don't fix it, it will be removed
> and erlang can migrate. Unless there is some issue that I am not aware
> of that warrants a faster migration (and hence removal of elixir-lang).

Very well, I've now send that to command@, and added a `summary` to the
cloned bug to explain a bit what's happening.
The new bug against elixir-lang is #959701.

> Given the issue as I understand it, I don't want to binNMU it. I think
> the binNMU'd package can migrate before erlang and then the package in
> testing is broken (until erlang migrates) which isn't cool

I don't think that would happen.  bin:elixir depends on
erlang-pcre-8.43, which is provided by bin:erlang-core in testing, but
erlang-core in unstable only provides erlang-pcre-8.43-1 instead.
(I believe that's the original cause of the breakage, an ABI break in
that thing.)

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