Comment 5 for bug 1714101

Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:53:52AM -0000, Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> This bug should better have been reported upstream into the bug tracker
> of the rsplib GitHub repository. I just noticed it now.

Unfortunately, neither the contents of the source package nor the upstream
webpage I found had directed me towards this github repository at the time I
was looking.

Furthermore, Launchpad is the bug tracker that Ubuntu users will use to file
bugs against packages in Ubuntu. We have no way to automatically forward
these bug reports to github issues; but anyone can subscribe to bug reports
on a given package if they are interested.

If you want this package to be in Ubuntu, I strongly encourage you to
subscribe to those bug reports.

> For Ubuntu 18.04, it is strongly recommended to upgrade from version
> 3.0.1 to the latest version 3.1.7, which has just been released
> (https://www.uni-due.de/~be0001/rserpool/#Download). I created updated
> packages for 3.1.7 in my PPA at
> https://launchpad.net/~dreibh/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=rsplib&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=
> . The bug (actually a change of the underlying lksctp header files) is
> solved there.

Yes, that was the conclusion I came to as well, but please see my previous
comment about the issue that blocked me from updating this in Ubuntu:

  librsplib2 has an ABI-breaking change without an soname change, so that
  would need to be resolved.

I see that the packages uploaded to your ppa still call this binary package
librsplib2. Is it your intention to keep the soname the same in spite of
the ABI break?

Do you want this package reuploaded to bionic? I'd be more than willing to
sponsor it back in if you plan to maintain it, and given a resolution to the
ABI question.