[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#721356: transition: telepathy-logger

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:15:49 +0100,
Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> a écrit :

> On 04/09/13 02:29, Diane Trout wrote:
> > I've been trying to maintain kde-telepathy, and am still fairly new
> > to official debian package development. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions for handling the transition?
> 
> Step 0 (optional, but would be useful) is to do local rebuilds of the
> KDE stuff against telepathy-logger/experimental, and make sure they
> work, in the same way that empathy and gnome-shell in experimental
> have already been built against telepathy-logger/experimental
> (because they specifically need the newer version). If you need
> source changes to make these work, please upload those to
> experimental; if you only need a rebuild, there's no need.

I already did a test rebuild for all the rdeps and it was succeeding. I
however didn't check if they were still working (especially the KDE
bits).

> Step 1 is to wait for the release team to say "OK to do this
> transition now", at which point someone (probably Laurent?) will
> upload the new telepathy-logger to unstable and ask the release team
> to do binNMUs (automated rebuilds) of all the affected packages.

Yes I'll do the upload when we'll receive the green light.

> If a simple rebuild is enough, then you don't need to do anything
> further at this stage. If source changes to the KDE stuff do turn out
> to be needed, step 2 is to do those uploads - it's probably best if
> KDE people build and test those. However, not a lot seems to have
> changed in telepathy-logger, and I'm not sure it really needed to
> break ABI at all, so I suspect this transition will just need simple
> rebuilds.

It's also a good practice to not make any uploads unrelated to the
transition (new major version and stuff like that) of these packages.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville