Bug#760440: transition: cfitsio
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:48:39PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
>
> On 04/09/14 07:52, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to do a transition for the CFITSIO library. Upstream
> > finally decided to support shared libraries and to ensure the soname
> > will change if the ABI changes. This will makes the maintenance in
> > Debian more easy and will avoid Debian specific changes to keep the ABI
> > stable.
> >
> > I have uploaded a package with the new library to experimental 1.5
> > months ago, and my plan was to fill the transition bug once the package
> > reaches experimental. Unfortunately the package still sits into NEW
> > despite a ping a few days ago. I am therefore filling this bug before
> > the deadline in the hope we can still do this transition for Jessie.
> >
> > The API hasn't changed beside new functions, so this transition should
> > be quite easy to handle via binNMUs only.
>
> Sounds good. Go ahead.
Thanks, I have just uploaded it.
Aurelien
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