[pkg-lxqt-devel] Bug#1023787: transition: liblxqt

[ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬)]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:26:42PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Dear LXQt maintainers,
> 
> On 10-11-2022 07:56, plugwash wrote:
> > It appears a liblxqt transition has started, possiblly inadvertantly.
> > 
> > Back in June, Simon Quigley prepared an update of the lxqt stack. He announced
> > that he intended to update the stack in unstable, but only actually did so in
> > experimental.
> > 
> > Part of this update was a transition from liblxqt0 to liblxqt1. The dev package
> > has also been renamed from liblxqt0 to liblxqt1-dev, so this transition requires
> > sourceful uploads of all reverse dependencies.
> > 
> > In late October, Andrew Lee uploaded the new versions liblxqt and lxqt-session
> > to unstable, but did not upload the rest of the stack.
> > 
> > liblxqt has migrated to testing thanks to "smooth updates", leaving the lxqt
> > stack in testing in violation of "packages must be buildable within the same
> > release".
> 
> Can you please comment on this and also elaborate how you intent to fix the
> situation. At this moment we have a whole bunch of packages [1] that can't
> be rebuild in testing due to this, which means all those packages are RC
> buggy. The LXQt stack is part of the key package set, so the packages are
> not trivial to remove. We only have slightly under 2 months until the first
> bookworm freeze, I'd like to see this issue solved ASAP.

Sorry for the mess. Our current plan is to package 1.1.0 first. I will
spend some time this week to work on these packages.

> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_testing_main/latest/amd64.html



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