Bug#757575: transition: libgcrypt20

[Andreas Metzler]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Hello,

I would like to make sure that we only ship one gcrypt version in
jessie and am therefore opening the transition tracker now.

libgcrypt20 is mostly API compatible to libgcrypt11. The main reason
why we have versioned -dev packages is that libgnutls26 is one of the
packages which cannot work with the old API. libgnutls26 should not be
shipped in jessie so I envision that it should be possible to make
major parts of this transition by bin-NMUs since I will be able to
make libgcrypt11-dev a dummy package depending on libgcrypt20-dev
after libgnutls26 has been dropped.

libgcrypt11's upstream support will end on 2016-12-31.

I will do some test builds to find out more.

Ben file:

title = "libgcrypt20";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libgcrypt11" | .depends ~ "libgcrypt20" | .depends ~ "libgcrypt11-dev" | .depends ~ "libgcrypt20-dev" | .depends ~ "libgcrypt-dev";
is_good = .depends ~ "libgcrypt20";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libgcrypt11";

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