Aquila Macedo Costa: Testing library transitions before they reach unstable

A library transition can affect many packages in Debian. I added a way for Salsa CI to rebuild the ones that depend on the changing library, so maintainers can test the transition before it reaches unstable. The need for this became clear during a proposed Poppler transition. Poppler is a library for rendering PDFs. The reverse-dependency job I had added to Salsa CI queued 100 of 115 candidate rebuilds, even though only about 21 were relevant. The problem was documented…

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