[Git][debian-gis-team/lerc][master] 9 commits: Exclude pre-built binaries

[Antonio Valentino]

Dear Bas,

Il 21/07/22 09:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
> On 7/21/22 09:27, Antonio Valentino (@antonio.valentino) wrote:
>> dc289350 by Antonio Valentino at 2022-07-20T06:02:36+00:00
>> Exclude pre-built binaries
> 
> Excluding OtherLanguages/CSharp might be a good idea too, it's only one 
> source file but it's not relevant for the Debian package and hence not 
> time would then need to be spend on license & copyright review for that 
> code.
> 
> I've pushed a change to use #PACKAGE# substitution in the symbols file 
> so you only need to rename the file and change the SONAME in the symbols 
> file whenever its bumped.
> 
> Because of the SONAME bump a transition will be required, hence the 
> package should be uploaded to experimental first. Once it passes NEW it 
> won't immediately trigger an uncoordinated transition in unstable. With 
> the package in experimental, and automatic ben tracker will be also 
> generated on release.debian.org, so you won't need to include ben 
> configuration in the transition bugreport (which reportbug still 
> generates for you).
> 
> To prepare transitions, you can use the permanent trackers on my ben 
> instance. It shows tiff to be only rdep which makes rebuild testing 
> quite easy:
> 
>   https://linuxminded.nl/debian/gis-transitions/html/lerc.html
> 
> See also the workflow documented in the transition documentation linked 
> from the tracker:
> 
>   https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 


Thanks a lot for the guidance.
Indeed I have never triggered a transition before.
I still need some time for final checks on the package.
Also, when the package will be in experimental, probably I will need to 
update the symbol file for architectures different form amd64.

Regarding libtiff I don't know the if it is currently able to build with 
lerc4. I will check and submit a patch upstream if necessary.
In any case I will not trigger the transition process if libtiff is not 
able to build with the new lerc version.

Finally I'm wondering why also gdal is not in the rdep list.
I'm pretty sure that also other drivers, beyond GTIFF,  use lerc.


kind regards
-- 
Antonio Valentino