Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4

From	Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4
Date	2025-11-19 17:40 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>
> > If this bug isn't able to be fixed in Debian yet, could you consider
> > uploading event-dance and filetea to Experimental? Then we could
> > remove event-dance, filetea, and libsoup2.4 from Unstable, but you
> > wouldn't need to go through the source NEW queue when you upload
> > event-dance later.
>
> I think that we'd need to go through NEW anyway with event-dance
> because as soon as soup3 support lands we'll have new binary packages.

Yes, I think binary NEW usually gets processed within days, while
source NEW is likely to take months currently.

> But sure, I can upload event-dance and filetea to experimental in the
> meantime, but what happens to soup2 in this case?

I think these are our options:

1. Wait for event-dance upstream

2. Upload event-dance (ported to libsoup3) to Unstable without waiting
for upstream

3. Ask ftpmasters to remove libsoup2.4 from Unstable even though this
will break event-dance and filetea. I know pcre3 was removed from
Unstable early this year even though some things in Unstable hadn't
been ported away from it.

4. My suggestion is to upload event-dance and filetea to experimental
as is (still using libsoup2.4) and then ask ftpmasters to remove
event-dance, filetea, and libsoup2.4 from Unstable. To use event-dance
or filetea from Experimental, someone would need to install libsoup2.4
from Debian 13. I don't plan to upload libsoup2.4 to Experimental.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Thread

Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4 Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org> - 2025-11-19 15:00 +0100
  Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4 Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> - 2025-11-19 15:50 +0100
    Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4 Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org> - 2025-11-19 17:40 +0100
      Bug#1073943: event-dance: Stop using libsoup2.4 Jeremy Bícha <jbicha@debian.org> - 2025-11-19 18:00 +0100

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