On 2020-12-15 Niels Möller wrote:
Hi, I wonder if it would make sense to try to cut a release pretty soon (and without any arm64 changes)? Previous release was made end of April, and there's been quite a few improvements since then.
I wonder if it is possible to make a release in time for the upcoming debian release? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/11/msg00002.html Nettle-3.7 should be abi-compatible, and with unchanged soname, so I'm not sure if it would count as a "transition" in the debian world.
Hello,
it would not count as transition https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#transition
| When changes in a package cause the need for changes in other | packages, we call this a 'transition'. The most common example is | a library transition. Transitions require coordination between | maintainers and can take a long time to finish, especially when bugs | are discovered during the transition. Unfinished transitions can block | the migration of unrelated fixes in the packages involved in the | transition. From the start of the Transition and (build-)essentials | Freeze, it's no longer appropriate to start new transitions.
A "library transition" happens after a soname-bump, all reverse dependencies need to be rebuilt against the new version and if the API also changed incompatibly require source changes.
cu And- I am not hinting that delaying a release until after the start of the transition freeze would be welcome ;-)-reas