Please transition libart-lgpl to multi-arch

There seems to be a package for this waiting on mentorship upstream in Debian according to the debian bug.

Updated my experimental multi-arch ppa libart package to include the differences that were added upstream on the debian bug, testing here:
https://launchpad.net/~tellis/+archive/multiarch

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libart-lgpl/2.3.21-2

"libart-lgpl (2.3.21-2) unstable; urgency=low
...
  * Convert to multiarch. Closes: #661714
..."

SRU and attached debdiff for -proposed done.

Thanks,
Adam

hum, the upload got rejected, I guess that's by lack of bug reference, reuploading with one

@Seb: Yeah, I rejected the previous upload (and sent an email to Adam) because it had no bug reference.

I'm not thrilled about the superfluous packaging changes in this SRU - switching to DH9, dropping patches in favour of dh_autoreconf, dropping the .la file, and switching to 3.0 (quilt).

Are these changes taken from somewhere else, either Debian or the Quantal package? If so, could this be mentioned in the changelog?
Doesn't dropping the .la files present a risk that rdepends (either in the archive or of 3rd party software) will fail to build?

To what extent have the in-archive rdepends been tested with this? The list, for testing, would be:
  winefish
  sanduhr
  resapplet
  python-renderpm-dbg
  planner
  pegsolitaire
  oregano
  mathwar
  libgnomeuimm-2.6-1c2a
  libgnomeprintui2.2-0
  libgnomeprint2.2-0
  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a
  libflowcanvas5
  grcm
  gpiv-mpi
  gpiv
  gnustep-back0.20-art
  gnomekiss
  gniall
  gcursor
  gamazons
  dia-libs
  conglomerate
  atomix
  ardour
  python-renderpm
  libgnomeui-0
  libgnomecanvas2-0
  libbonoboui2-0
  libart2.0-cil

And I rejected it again.

SRU's should be miminal changes to fix the bug in question.

Of these items:

+libart-lgpl (2.3.21-1ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low
+
+ * Use dpkg source format 3.0 (quilt).
+ * Drop debian/patches/70_relibtoolize.patch and use dh-autoreconf instead to
+ update the build system.
+ * Bump debhelper compat level to 9.
+ * Stip debian/tmp/ from .install files.
+ * Convert to multiarch. Closes: #661714 (lp: #977964)
+ * Drop libtool .la file.
+ * Add Vcs-* fields.
+ * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
+ * Add symbols file for libart-2.0-2.

As far as I can tell, only "Convert to multiarch." is addressing a bug. Is addressing a bug. There is 186.0 KiB of diff here and only one there's only three lines of code that're changed due to multiarch.

For an SRU, please make it truly minimal.

Actually I pressed the wrong button by mistake and accepted it. I'll remove it, but you'll have to use a higher version number when you reupload.

Thats fine. The question I have is do we want to base the multiarch of quantal's version? If so, then the previous changes apply and we can then backport to precise. Updating the changelog and bumping rev is easy enough to reflect this.

My rdepends testing for libart on quantal build host:

./gnomekiss_2.0-4-amd64-20120807-1512:Status: successful
./dia_0.97.2-8-amd64-20120807-1422:Status: successful
./flowcanvas_0.7.1+dfsg0-0.2-amd64-20120807-1441:Status: successful
./firestarter_1.0.3-11-amd64-20120807-1436:Status: successful
./gmfsk_0.6+0.7pre1-2.3-amd64-20120807-1502:Status: successful
./mathwar_0.2.5-2-amd64-20120807-1623:Status: successful
./gnome-sharp2_2.24.2-2-amd64-20120807-1517:Status: successful
./libgnomeui_2.24.5-2ubuntu2-amd64-20120807-1609:Status: successful
./conglomerate_0.9.1-3.2ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1415:Status: successful
./python-reportlab_2.5-1.1build1-amd64-20120807-1645:Status: successful
./sanduhr_1.93-4-amd64-20120807-1651:Status: successful
./wxsvg_1.1.8~dfsg0-2-amd64-20120807-1700:Status: successful
./libgnomecanvas_2.30.3-1ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1551:Status: successful
./libgnomeprintui_2.18.6-3ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1604:Status: successful
./gpiv_0.6.1-2-amd64-20120807-1531:Status: successful
./pegsolitaire_0.0.4-1-amd64-20120807-1633:Status: successful
./gcursor_0.061-ubuntu5-amd64-20120807-1451:Status: successful
./gnustep-back_0.20.1-2ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1526:Status: successful
./oregano_0.70-1ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1628:Status: successful
./winefish_1.3.3-0dl1ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1656:Status: successful
./gniall_0.7.1-7-amd64-20120807-1508:Status: successful
./gamazons_0.83-4-amd64-20120807-1445:Status: successful
./planner_0.14.6-1ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1638:Status: successful
./atomix_2.14.0-2ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1409:Status: successful
./ardour_2.8.12+svn12923-1-amd64-20120807-1352:Status: successful
./libbonoboui_2.24.5-0ubuntu2-amd64-20120807-1542:Status: successful
./gjiten_2.6-2.2ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1455:Status: successful
./resapplet_0.0.7+cvs2005.09.30-0ubuntu5-amd64-20120807-1647:Status: successful
./grcm_0.1.6-1ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1538:Status: successful
./libgnomecanvasmm2.6_2.26.0-1build1-amd64-20120807-1555:Status: successful
./libgnomeprint_2.18.8-3ubuntu1-amd64-20120807-1600:Status: successful
./libgnomeuimm2.6_2.28.0-1-amd64-20120807-1616:Status: successful

Updated rdeps testing for libart with recent MP

wxsvg_1.1.6~dfsg-1-amd64-20120810-1151:Status: successful
libgnomeprint_2.18.8-3ubuntu1-amd64-20120810-1142:Status: successful
libgnomeprintui_2.18.6-3ubuntu1-amd64-20120810-1146:Status: successful
libgnomecanvas_2.30.3-1ubuntu1-amd64-20120810-1136:Status: successful

Hello Tom, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libart-lgpl into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libart-lgpl/2.3.21-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

For reference:

> Doesn't dropping the .la files present a risk that rdepends
> (either in the archive or of 3rd party software) will fail to build?

This should only ever be a problem if there are other reverse-dependencies in the archive which reference this .la file in .la files of their own, and that's not the case here.

Bug fixed. I managed to install the i386 within an amd64 environment, no error, no removal, nor unmet dependencies. The i386 and amd64 are now co-installable.
Could you please commit it into mainstream?
Thanks.

Thanks for testing it should be making it's way into the main repo soon.

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package libart-lgpl - 2.3.21-1ubuntu0.1

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libart-lgpl (2.3.21-1ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add multiarch support (LP: #977964)
 -- Adam Stokes <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:47:01 -0400