faad2: 2.7 packages are ready for upload

[Andres Mejia]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 23:28:04 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> El lunes 1 de junio, Andres Mejia escribió:
> > On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:40:16 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > El lunes 1 de junio, Andres Mejia escribió:
> > > > Forgot to mention this in the last mail. I've also fixed every bug in
> > > > the BTS for faad2.
> > > >
> > > > faad2 will have to pass through the NEW queue again. One thing that
> > > > changed is the name of the libfaad shared lib package. It's now named
> > > > as libfaad2, since the library installed is libfaad.so.2.0.0.
> > >
> > > You should coordinate with the release team, so that you don't get faad
> > > tangled with some other transition.
> >
> > This is something we still have to wait for the new faad2 package to be
> > accepted and enter testing anyway.
>
> No. Imagine libA is transitioning. faad is uploaded to unstable. Package B
> is built against the new faad. Then libfaad has becomed tangled with the
> transition of libA: B cannot transition into testing until libfaad does
> too. The transitions are *into* testing.

Could you CC 515072 at bugs.debian.org? faad2 is not maintained by the multimedia 
team yet.

Alright then, I'll contact the release team. However, will any DD from the 
multimedia team upload the new faad2?

> > I suppose once the new faad2 is accepted, binNMUs should be requested for
> > reverse dependencies. Here's my list of packages depending on libfaad0
> > and libfaad2-0.
>
> You have to look at the reverse build-dependencies on the -dev package.

Is there some program that will show reverse build-dependencies? I can't figure 
out how to make apt-cache do this.

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Regards,
Andres