Bug#1028602: transition: gnustep-base, gnustep-gui

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-gnustep-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:gnustep-base src:gnustep-gui

Dear Release team,

We would like your permission to carry out a GNUstep transition (two
libraries simultaneously with one round of binNMUs):

  libgnustep-base1.28 -> 1.29
  libgnustep-gui0.29  -> 0.30

I realise we are already late and in all likelihood we've missed the
last bookworm train, which is rather unpleasant for us and GNUstep
users but entirely our fault.  In case it's not possible to do it now
(after tiff/poppler) then please have us in mind for the early stages
of the trixie development cycle.

gnustep-base/1.29.0-1 is available in experimental, not yet built on
mipsen, ppc64el and s390x.  But note that 1.28.1-2 was built in
unstable on all release architectures; 1.29.0 is essentially the same
except the version bump (the damage done was corrected; see #1028189).

gnustep-gui/0.30.0-1 is also available in experimental, not yet built
on ppc64el and s390x but I do not expect any problems there.

While build-testing all rdeps on amd64, the following problems were
observed:

agenda.app   #1028185  gnustep-gui bug, will be fixed with next upload
gnustep-dl2  #1028577  fixed locally; needs a sourceful upload
pantomime    #1028578  likewise
sope         #1028579  patch sent to the BTS; needs a sourceful upload

In addition, gnustep-back will require a sourceful upload (that is
always the case).

The automatic ben trackers at release.d.o look fine.