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Re: Status of antlr4 in Debian

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Hi Emmanuel,

Le 26/10/2022 à 18:22, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit :
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Le 26/10/2022 à 16:47, Pierre Gruet a écrit :
> 
>> My question is: apart from time to work on the package, is there any 
>> reason we should remain with antlr4 4.7.2 in Debian although 4.11.1 
>> has been released upstream?
> 
> Yes, antlr is the kind of package you don't want to upgrade, because 
> it's likely to break another package and debugging a language grammar 
> without upstream consent is really the last thing you want to do. So as 
> long as it works, I'm not touching it :)

That's much understandable :-D

> 
> The safe way to upgrade antlr4 is to:
> - check the version used by the reverse dependencies
> - if the lowest version used is above the package version, then upgrade
> - if the version you need is still higher, checkout the project, update 
> the antlr dependency and run the upstream test suite (not from the 
> Debian package build since tests are sometime disabled)
> - if all goes well, upgrade the antl4 package
> - if if not, clone the package to keep the previous version (we had to 
> do this with antlr 3.2)

Thank you for this detailed checklist. I will investigate the field, 
being very cautious.

> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 

Thanks also for this :-D

Best regards,

-- 
Pierre

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Status of antlr4 in Debian Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org> - 2022-10-26 16:50 +0200
  Re: Status of antlr4 in Debian Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2022-10-26 18:30 +0200
    Re: Status of antlr4 in Debian Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org> - 2022-10-26 22:50 +0200
      Re: Status of antlr4 in Debian Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2022-10-26 23:00 +0200
        Re: Status of antlr4 in Debian Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org> - 2022-10-27 18:00 +0200

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