[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#805566: network-manager-pptp: ppp new upstream release; dh_ppp

[Chris Boot]

Source: network-manager-pptp
Severity: important
Tags: sid stretch
User: ppp at packages.debian.org
Usertags: ppp-2.4.7-dh-ppp

Dear maintainer,

I have uploaded a new upstream release of ppp to experimental. As you
may be aware, new upstream releases of ppp cause ABI breaks, so the
version of your package currently in sid will stop working. A new
upload of your package will be required in order for it to remain
functional.

With this release of ppp I am also including a new dh_ppp tool in the
ppp-dev package. This will help to avoid having to make manual changes
to packages in future by automatically generating the correct
dependencies on binary packages. If your package build system also
requires the path to the ppp plugins directory, the dh_ppp tool is able
to provide that.

This should allow future ABI transitions to be tracked using the
release team's "ben" transition tracker, and packages should only
require a binary-only NMU to build against the new ABI.

I have prepared a patch for your package to enable to build against the
new version of ppp currently in experimental. I will add the patch to
this bug very shortly (once I have a bug number to add to the
changelog).

I plan to upload ppp-2.4.7 to sid on Friday, 4 December 2015. You will
need to upload a patched version of your package on or shortly after
that date.

Regards,
Chris (ppp maintainer)

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Chris Boot
debian at bootc.net
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