[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Why did you upload netcf 0.2.2 to SID after the freeze?

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:52:30PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi Serge and Al,
> 
> Serge uploaded netcf to SID after the freeze, on the 2012-08-07, which
> is more than one month after Debian Wheezy was frozen. Why did you do
> that? Can't you just use Experimental? That's best practice, IMO.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend to upload a new version to SID after the freeze at
> all, especially for a shared library, but this would have been
> acceptable if Al's upload from yesterday (November 18th, according to
> the PTS) completely broke broke libvirt in SID:
> 
> zigo at node ~$ sudo apt-get install libvirt0 libvirt-bin libnetcf1
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libnetcf1 : Conflicts: libvirt0 (<= 0.10.1-2~) but 0.9.12-5 is to be
> installed
>
> 
> SID, indeed, has version 0.9.12-5 of libvirt. And not even Experimental
> has a libvirt version that could satisfy this dependency.
> 
> So we have libvirt0 that depends on libnetcf1, but libnetcf1 conflicting
> with any libvirt0 that we have in SID / experimental. That doesn't look
> like a library transition that has been coordinated with the release team!

It doesn't conflict with the version in experimental. Although a breaks
would be prefereable over a conflicts. I'd prefer uploading 1.0.0 to 
sid rather than reverting the netcf change. We do have much better test
coverate for current versions and 0.9.12 isn't a particular good
release.
Cheers,
 -- Guido


> 
> Please fix the situation (eg: revert to version 0.2.0 if you need, the
> Conflict: with libvirt0 is unacceptable), and *please* coordinate such
> upload with the release team in the future.
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> 
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