Bug#802912: nmu: openmw_0.36.1-1

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Control: reassign 801914 src:bullet
Control: affects 801914 openmw
Control: retitle 801914 bullet: broke ABI without a library transition

On 06/11/15 11:22, bret curtis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 26/10/15 18:30, Scott Howard wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
>>> <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> On 25/10/15 02:27, Scott Howard wrote:
>>>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
>>>>> Usertags: binnmu
>>>>>
>>>>> nmu openmw_0.36.1-1 . ANY . unstable . -m "rebuild against new
>> libbullet"
>>>>>
>>>>> The maintainer (Bret Curtis) is busy but asked me to request this
>> binNMU
>>>>>
>>>>> Game crashes because it was compiled against an old libbullet. More
>> info:
>>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801914
>>>>> https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3053
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like you need a library transition.
>>>>
>>>> Emilio
>>>
>>> Yes, but the discussion on the libbullet transition went another way:
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790988#35
>>
>> As you can see in that bug report, there already was a bullet transition
>> for the
>> GCC 5 / libstdc++6 breaks.
>>
>> The problem is that openmw 0.36.1-1+b2 was built against bullet
>> 2.83.5+dfsg-2,
>> but upgrading bullet to 2.83.6+dfsg-1 breaks openmw. That means bullet
>> broke the
>> ABI and needs a transition.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emilio
>>
> 
> As of today:
>    openmw: flagged for removal in 7.6 days
> 
> is there any way to prevent it's removal and having to go through the whole
> ITP again?

That will only remove it from testing, not unstable. So you won't have to go
through the whole process. You'll just need to fix the RC bugs for the package
to get back into testing.

> Is there anything being done about bullet?

Let's close this binNMU request and reassign #801914 to bullet. Bullet will need
a library transition to fix this properly.

Cheers,
Emilio