[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717418: transition: libudev

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:16:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Am 09.09.2013 19:32, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> > On Sun, Sep  8, 2013 at 21:56:32 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:07:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >>
> >>> With xorg-server being fixed to no longer FTBFS, there is no more
> >>> blocker for this transition afaics and we should be ready to go. We'd
> >>> appreciate if we can start this transition as soon as possible, as we
> >>> need a newer systemd in various other packages (among them GNOME 3.8).
> >>> Also, updating udev is long overdue.
> >>>
> >>> Would be great if we can get an ack from the release team for the
> >>> unstable upload.
> >>>
> >> ATM this would clash with the libav transition.  That one still has a
> >> number of build failures unfortunately :(
> >>
> > Actually we should be ok.  systemd should be able to migrate ahead of
> > libav9 if it's ready, and britney will keep libudev0 around in testing
> > until everything has caught up.
> 
> How can systemd migrate ahead of time if the source package no longer
> builds libudev0. Wouldn't that block the testing migration of systemd?
> Or is this a special case since in testing libudev0 is built from
> another source package (src:udev)?
> 
britney keeps old libs around in testing if they still have reverse
deps.  Though I had completely forgotten about the source package name
change in this case, which should make this even easier.

Cheers,
Julien
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