Bug#1041227: transition: suitesparse

[Sébastien Villemot]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: suitesparse at packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:suitesparse
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-suitesparse.html
Control: block -1 by 1041059 1037905 1037622 1040694 1041225 1037858

Dear Release Team,

Please schedule a transition for suitesparse 7, which currently sits in
experimental.

In this new major release, the SOVERSION of all libraries has been bumped,
because some integer types part of the API have been redefined; however, this
redefinition does not change anything on our release architectures.

There are also a couple of other changes in headers that impact three reverse
dependencies: libdogleg, siconos and octave. A fix is available for the three
of them, and I stand ready to upload as needed.

Four other reverse dependencies (yade, dolfin, openturns, sight) currently
FTBFS for unrelated reasons. As a consequence, I could not verify that they
build correctly against suitesparse 7 (but if they don’t, I’m fairly confident
that they can be adapted).

Thanks,

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