Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:19, Adeodato Simó <dato at net.com.org.es> wrote:
> Maintainers: unless you’re jackbeat or gst-plugins-bad0.10, you need not
> upload for this, though build-depending on libjack-dev in your next
> upload would be nice.
>
> ---
>
> Hello, Felipe. I finally found some time to look at your message. I’ve
> moved -release to CC (thanks for the Bcc!), since it’s on-topic there.
>
>> Fellow developers and release team (bcc'ed),
>
>> The Debian Multimedia Maintainers would like to drop the  versioned jack
>> library and development packages (that is, libjack0.100.0-{0,dev}). They were
>> introduced a long time ago (along with the appropriately renamed library) due
>> to perceived instability in the jack library's ABI. For a while now, this is
>> no longer necessary, and upstream has catalogued Debian packages of jack
>> broken because of that. The debian packages no longer change the soname of the
>> library (starting with lenny), and the versioned packages are just dummy ones.
>> We want to drop them now. The first thing to be done is to switch the
>> build-dependency from libjack0.100.0-dev to libjack-dev. After all packages
>> have been changed and uploaded, we can upload a jack without those
>> transitional packages (unless I overlooked something and we need the RT ack
>> first?).
>
>> Just to be clear: there is ABI/SONAME transition here. Packages that still
>> depend on libjack0.100.0-0 use the symlink provided by that package[1]. A
>> mere "sed -i -e 's/libjack0.100.0/libjack/g' debian/control" should be all
>> that people need to do.
>
> I assume you mean “there is NOT ABI/SONAME transition here”, heh.

Indeed.

> So,
> here are my comments on the matter:
>
>  * plan for libjack0.100.0-dev: you can make a j-a-c-k upload to
>    unstable dropping this development package immediately, provided
>    that you add a “Provides: libjack0.100.0-dev” line to the
>    libjack-dev package.

Sounds like a better plan.

>
>    You will have to file two bugs at RC severity against jackbeat and
>    gst-plugins-bad0.10; these are the only packages that have a
>    *versioned* build-dependency on libjack0.100.0-dev, as far as I can
>    see.
>
>    I’ve also checked, and there is no pacakge with versioned
>    dependencies on libjack0.100.0-dev.

OK.

>
>  * plan for libjack0.100.0-0: there are 11 source packages left with
>    dependencies on this old library. No sourceful uploads are needed
>    for this: once you’ve gotten back to me that the plan is good, I
>    will provide you with a list of packages and schedule Bin-NMUs; then
>    you can do some work of checking if they built successfully
>    everywhere, filing bugs, etc. Once all of them have been rebuilt
>    (which will make them depend on libjack0), please check with us that
>    they’ve migrated to testing, and at that point libjack0.100.0-0 can
>    be dropped.
>
> Sounds good?

Amsynth will require a sourceful upload, since the dependency is not
generated by dpkg-shlibdeps because it dlopens libjack. It is the only
one I saw.


Saludos,
Felipe Sateler