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Re: Binary-only rebuild of a package in trixie

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On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 10:43:42PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118629 pertains to a
> bug that can be resolved in trixie by simply rebuilding ckermit from
> source.

A rebuild is not really a solution for the root cause.

The root cause of the problem is that OpenSSL changed it's version 
rules for ABI compatibility (1.0 and 1.1 were not ABI-compatible,
but ABI is compatible among 3.x version), and C-Kermit still assumes
the old one.

The proper solution in this case is to patch out the OpenSSL check from 
C-Kermit and then backport that change in a pu request[1] for trixie. 
The actual requirement is already handled by the soname and the
automatically generated dependency on libssl3t64.

In the extremely rare case that a package actually has a stricter 
requirement than the soversion of the library, it would have to create
a matching dependency like "libssl3t64 (>= 3.5), libssl3t64 (<< 3.6)" 
during the build.

> I'd like to know how to accomplish this.  Is there someone that I could
> contact to do that?  Or does it require a new changelog entry, and
> source upload, to trixie-proposed-updates or some such?

For a binNMU request (which might get rejected due to the above issue) do:

reportbug release.debian.org
  1 binnmu       binNMU requests

> Thanks,
> 
> John

cu
Adrian

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#special-case-uploads-to-the-stable-and-oldstable-distributions

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Binary-only rebuild of a package in trixie John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2025-11-05 06:00 +0100
  Re: Binary-only rebuild of a package in trixie Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-11-05 11:10 +0100
  Re: Binary-only rebuild of a package in trixie Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-11-05 11:30 +0100

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