libgig - update

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2016-11-16 14:54:16)
> 2016-11-16 14:47 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> > On 16/11/16 13:38, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> >> 2016-11-16 13:51 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> >>> On 16/11/16 08:31, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> updating libgig is almost ready ...
> >>>> There is one unusual issue ... debian dir contain Makefile.in Makefile.am files.
> >>>> They can't to be just removed as build depend on them.
> >>>> They are shipped by upstream's debian dir.
> >>>> What about this issue?
> >>>
> >>> Can you patch the toplevel Makefile.am to not look in debian/ (remove
> >>> debian from SUBDIRS)? Hopefully the build will still work.
> >>
> >> Bingo ... configere.ac file also had to be patched ;)
> >>
> >> Dependants of libgig are:
> >>  qsampler  version in unstable should build with libgig 4.0.0
> >>  gigedit which needs to be updated to version 1.0.0 - I am considering
> >> to became uploader of it
> >>
> >> Is there still chance to get it uploaded if there is transition freeze?
> >
> > You would have to ask the release team, but I don't think it's likely
> > you'd get a freeze exception. Everything can be uploaded to experimental
> > in the meantime though.
> 
> ok ... let's go experimental
> I have done repacking anyway ;)

What is now frozen is major transitions - and a library with 2 reverse 
dependencies certainly does not sound like a major transistion to me.

I recommend to ask release team - not give up without trying!

 - Jonas

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