[Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep libraries soname bump

[Adeodato Simó]

* Hubert Chathi [Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:28:09 -0400]:

Hello again,

> > Second, the above means we have to either to skip poppler.framework
> > from the initial set of Bin-NMUs, but that's messy since other
> > packages depend on it; or to allow it to migrate to testing and
> > possibly break GNUstep in testing; or to temporarily break it in
> > testing, and rebuild it against the new poppler there; or to
> > reconsider whether GNUstep should wait that the poppler transition
> > finishes, but I don't want to do that.

> I guess that depends on how far along the poppler transition is.

> I think that the only packages that depend on popplerkit.framework are
> vindaloo (a.k.a. viewpdf.app) and gworkspace.  And IIRC, nothing
> depends on vindaloo or gworkspace, other than the gnustep
> meta-packages.

> Another option could be to temporarily remove popplerkit.framework and
> its reverse dependencies from squeeze so that it won't hold up the
> transitions.  I don't know how the release team feels about that, or
> the rest of the GNUstep team, but it's early enough in the release cycle
> that I personally am not worried about popplerkit getting stuck in sid.

The poppler transition is almost ready, and the popplerkit.framework
upload you made to fix the linkage issue has been built everywhere. This
means you can go forward with starting the GNUstep transition in
unstable, but we won’t schedule Bin-NMUs for popplerkit.framework until
poppler has been done, if that’s okay with you.

Please come by when you’ve uploaded to unstable and Bin-NMUs are needed.

Thanks,

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