Re: grib-api 1.12.3-1

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 05/10/14 20:19, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have prepared a new upload of grib-api, version 1.12.3-1. This is the
> main bit of the changelog:
>
>    * New upstream version
>       - grib_api has an official soname now!
>
> It means that it now builds just a standard libgrib-api0, supported by
> upstream, and we'd be done with having the library full version in the
> soname.
>
> However, I'm kind of late.
>
> Still, I've rebuilt all the reverse build dependencies with it[1], and
> they build fine with it. This means that the only transition needed
> would just be a round of binNMUs.
>
> It would be nice to have grib_api soname sanity in jessie, but I'm not
> uploading it without your informed and enthousiastic consent.
>
> Please let me know. The new package is on master here:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/gribapi.git
>
>
> [1] This is the list as far as I understand:
>      Maintained by Alastair McKinstry: cdo, emoslib, flexpart, magics++,
>                                        metview, pygrib
>      Maintained by Youhei SASAKI: ruby-grib

It is great to have a stable soname, but this is too late for Jessie. You can 
however file a transition bug now and upload the package to experimental. But 
the transition will have to wait till after the freeze.

Emilio