libvigraimpex

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 19, 2011, at 03:00 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>> libvigraimpex (1.7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu6) natty; urgency=low
>>   * Adjust symbols file for ppc64.
>
>> - appears to be no longer relevant since debian/libvigraimpex2.symbols is
>>   replaced with d/libvigraimpex3.symbols
>
>This is no longer relevant not because the library name has changed, but
>because the changes to the library ABI mean the package no longer has
>architecture-specific symbols listed in the .symbols file.  Instead,
>they've all been replaced with an "optional" marker, which is tacky - if one
>of those symbols goes missing later by mistake, dpkg-gensymbols won't
>protect against it.  But that's not an issue for merging.

Right, sorry, I did notice that, I just didn't type it in my summary. ;)

>> libvigraimpex (1.7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
>>   * Remove build dependency on libhdf5-serial-dev (universe).  Reconsider
>>     after the release of maverick. LP: #635891.
>>   * debian/libvigraimpex2.symbols: Mark HDF5 symbols as optional.
>
>> - so, it's after maverick and let's reconsider!  Look at bug #635891 for
>>   details.  If we MIR python-h5py and hfd5, then we can just sync to Debian
>>   and be done with it.  Otherwise, I'll need to re-apply these deltas.
>
>> Because the Wheezy version of the package appears to build just fine (modulo
>> component mismatch), I'm going to trigger the sync.  Please let me know
>> whether you think it's better to MIR the universe packages or re-apply the
>> Ubuntu deltas.  Doing that after the sync completes still appears to be
>> easier than trying to do a merge.
>
>Note that the MIRs go beyond hdf5 itself; hdf5 has build-dependencies on
>mpich, lam, openmpi and mpi-defaults, all of which are in universe. 
>Personally I wouldn't think it benefits us to have these in main, and that
>the merge is the easier solution.

Good point.  The package is in now depwait, so I'll add that delta back.

Cheers,
-Barry
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