[Pkg-silc-devel] Please binNMU pidgin against libsilc-dev (>= 1.1.9-1)

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:46:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> (11/07/2009):
> > Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > > Hi mighty members of the release team,
> > > 
> > > Could you please schedule a binNMU of pidgin against
> > > libsilc-dev (>= 1.1.9-1) in order to update its binary deps?
> > 
> > Can you please give a bit more context as it doesn't seem obvious why
> > this would be needed?
> 
> From silc-toolkit_1.1.9-1/changelog:
> |    * libsilc and libsilcclient are now shipped in two different binary packages
> |      in order to respect their SONAMEs.  The -dev package depends on both and
> |      has been renamed to libsilc-dev.
> 
> libpurple0 (from src:pidgin) depends on one of them. I guess a rebuild
> would update that dependency; given that silc_client_* symbols come from
> the libsilcclient-1.1.3 binary, a dependency against that one is going
> to be added.
> 
> FWIW, silc-toolkit is uploaded, but not installed, on amd64. Cc'ing
> amd64 buildd admins for that matter.

I gave back silc-toolkit.


Kurt