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| Thomas Bushnell BSG 2004-08-20, 7:50 am |
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So I was not involved in the tiff upgrade, but I do have a package
which depends on gtk+2.0, and thus on tiff. And this incorporates a
new upstream release, and I think it's actually pretty important that
it get into sarge. So I have some minor stake in the transition, and
a question.
From: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=tiff I see that
there are a metric bajillion packages which the new tiff still breaks
(but many/most of these are recursive breakage? How many?)
So I guess my question is: what exactly is holding up the
tiff->testing transition now? Is there some place I can look to see
more clearly than the scripts and web sites I know of now?
Thomas
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| Andreas Metzler 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On 2004-08-20 Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
[...]
> So I guess my question is: what exactly is holding up the
> tiff->testing transition now? Is there some place I can look to see
> more clearly than the scripts and web sites I know of now?
http://people.debian.org/~aba/sarge.html#libtiff
| Update [2004-08-15] To make the transition manageable a
| tiff3g-sourcepackage generating libtiff3g has been uploaded to
| unstable, it will be removed before sarge releases but it does away
| with the requirement of all tiff-using packages being ready for
| propagation to sarge at the same time.
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| Update [2004-08-18] It'll take a little bit longer because all
| packages depending on libtiff3g-dev (not just build-depending) need to
| go in together. There are some missing builds and these packages
| include
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| * camlimages, which AFAICT pulls in the comlete Ocaml 3.08 upgrade.
| * imagemagick, which has a soname transition (libmagick5.5.7 to
| libmagick6) to make.
The current plan is to force libtiff3g built from the
tiff3g-sourcepackage and libtiff4 as soon as possible into testing.
This will require (temporarily) removing blocking packages and
intentionally breaking some selected packages, when removing is not
doable. (One of the difficult packages is koffice, it depends on
libmagick5.5.7 in sarge and the version in sid cannot go into sarge
because it is linked agains kdelibs 3.3)
When this will happen afaik basically depends on whether the testing
scripts offer a big enough hammer, that allows ro intentionally break
stuff or whether this functionality needs to be implemented first.
cu andreas
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| Thomas Bushnell BSG 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
> On 2004-08-20 Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> [...]
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> http://people.debian.org/~aba/sarge.html#libtiff
Very helpful; thanks.
> When this will happen afaik basically depends on whether the testing
> scripts offer a big enough hammer, that allows ro intentionally break
> stuff or whether this functionality needs to be implemented first.
Understood. True or false: We can rely on the new tiff being in
sarge.
Thomas
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| Steve Langasek 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:42:01PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Very helpful; thanks.
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Understood. True or false: We can rely on the new tiff being in
> sarge.
True -- the old one silently breaks ABI compatibility with woody, which
is not a bug we should let into a stable release (and even if we were
inclined to let it pass, it's far too late to back out now).
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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| Andreas Metzler 2004-08-22, 6:11 pm |
| On 2004-08-20 Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
[...]
> Understood. True or false: We can rely on the new tiff being in
> sarge.
[o] True.
Shipping the new libtiff is required to fix the rc-bug #234765 and its
merged friends.
cu andreas
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