Comment 1 for bug 1770748

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Jeremy BĂ­cha (jbicha) wrote :

Could the Foundations Team please take over maintenance of ilmbase?

ilmbase was added to main with LP: #240943. It is only in main because of imagemagick (via openexr) and the Foundations Team maintains imagemagick.

There is nothing the Ubuntu Desktop Team needs from ilmbase and the Ubuntu Desktop Team is not interested in manually maintaining C++ symbols across architectures every time Debian wants to update this package.

Also, if having a symbols file is indeed Required for inclusion in main even for C++ packages, it ought to be added to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionRequirements

I understand that force syncing ilmbase today so quickly looks bad, but it was able to clean up the 20+ openexr reverse dependencies that failed to build because the new openexr version required ilmbase to be updated.