faad2: 2.7 packages are ready for upload

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 05:11:49 UTC 2009


On Monday 01 June 2009 00:46:21 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> El lunes 1 de junio, Andres Mejia escribió:
> > On Sunday 31 May 2009 23:28:04 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > El lunes 1 de junio, Andres Mejia escribió:
> > > > On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:40:16 Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > > > El lunes 1 de junio, Andres Mejia escribió:
> > > > > > Forgot to mention this in the last mail. I've also fixed every
> > > > > > bug in the BTS for faad2.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > faad2 will have to pass through the NEW queue again. One thing
> > > > > > that changed is the name of the libfaad shared lib package. It's
> > > > > > now named as libfaad2, since the library installed is
> > > > > > libfaad.so.2.0.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > You should coordinate with the release team, so that you don't get
> > > > > faad tangled with some other transition.
> > > >
> > > > This is something we still have to wait for the new faad2 package to
> > > > be accepted and enter testing anyway.
> > >
> > > No. Imagine libA is transitioning. faad is uploaded to unstable.
> > > Package B is built against the new faad. Then libfaad has becomed
> > > tangled with the transition of libA: B cannot transition into testing
> > > until libfaad does too. The transitions are *into* testing.
> >
> > Could you CC 515072 at bugs.debian.org? faad2 is not maintained by the
> > multimedia team yet.
>
> Sorry, I didn't notice that.
>
> > Alright then, I'll contact the release team. However, will any DD from
> > the multimedia team upload the new faad2?
>
> I can't help you with that (not a DD myself).
>
> > > > I suppose once the new faad2 is accepted, binNMUs should be requested
> > > > for reverse dependencies. Here's my list of packages depending on
> > > > libfaad0 and libfaad2-0.
> > >
> > > You have to look at the reverse build-dependencies on the -dev package.
> >
> > Is there some program that will show reverse build-dependencies? I can't
> > figure out how to make apt-cache do this.
>
> Well, if you have some deb-src line in your apt sources.list, you can use
> grep-dctrl:
>
> grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends -sPackage libfaad-dev
> /var/lib/apt/lists/<mirror>Sources

Thanks. This is what I got.

$ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends -sPackage libfaad-dev 
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org*Sources
Package: mpd
Package: qmmp
Package: cmus
Package: ffmpeg-debian
Package: gst-plugins-bad0.10
Package: libquicktime
Package: moc
Package: mpd
Package: vlc
Package: xine-lib
Package: xmms2

-- 
Regards,
Andres



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