Bug#989344: ogre-1.12: diff for NMU version 1.12.10+dfsg2-1.1

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi Olek,

* Olek Wojnar <olek at debian.org> [2021-06-13 15:15]:
>Are you also planning to file an unblock bug or would you like Simon (or
>me) to take care of that?

I'm happy to take care of it.

>On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 3:27 PM <s.schmeisser at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry for messing this up, this is my first official debian package.
>> Your patch looks good. Could you please also open a MR on salsa for it? Or
>> commit it right away if you have the permissions.
>> I'm currently on vacation but can do further cleanup if required and an
>> update to 1.12.12 starting 25.06. when I'm back home

Hi Simon, I guess your mail got blocked by SPF, sorry I should really 
look into that at some point..

No worries with your package, I remember asking the release team for 
last minute changes in my first packages as well. I will open a MR with 
the change. Enjoy your vacation!

Just to be sure, note that Ogre 1.12.12 has a new Soversion so you need 
to change the package name and do a library transition (once bullseye is 
released). Please upload new versions only to experimental for now.

>As Simon's sponsor, I'd like to point out that his packaging was rather
>reasonable for a typical library. It is *extremely unusual* for a package
>to lose backwards-compatibility across _bugfix versions_! As I recall,
>upstream notified us of their rather unusual backwards-compatibility policy
>quite recently and I believe I recommended to Simon to not make a major
>versioning change like that this close to release. I was also not aware at
>the time that another package depended on the 1.12.x series of OGRE. So,
>for the record, I certainly bear a good part of the responsibility for this
>being an issue so close to release.

I agree that library that change the Soname with every release don't 
sound like the best idea. Normally lintian should warn you if library 
and package name don't match, but that's disabled for ogre-1.12. Maybe 
it makes sense to add some documentation to d/Readme.source or tests in 
d/rules so you don't forget next time.

Cheers Jochen
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