On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: libts-dev > Version: 1.0-4 > Severity: normal > > i tried to build xglamo yesterday -- but configure repeatedly failed > while looking for package tslib-1.0.
xglamo is not yet in Debian? In that case, xglamo needs to be modified to work with the tslib that is in Debian. > further investigation revealed that the package in fact was named > tslib-0.0.pcs tslib-0.0.pc (no 's') $ pkg-config tslib-0.0 --libs -lts > and the Version: line inside said Version: 0.0.2 This is a bug in the upstream configure.ac which still initialises the autotools at version 0.0.2. The .pc file correctly picks up the @VERSION@ data but upstream versioning has not been updated. > i don't really understand how these packageconf things are supposed to > work, but i gather that the name and content of that .pc file should > reflect the _real_ version, shouldn't it? The name is just a name, it does not have to relate to the current SONAME or anything else. Also, the name cannot be changed within Debian without also changing every other reverse dependency (i.e. a library transition). I see no point in doing that, even after Lenny, until upstream need a new SONAME. > to make xglamo compile with tslib i changed the name to tslib-1.0 and > the Version line to 1.0-4 and it went straight through. Don't do that. Change how xglamo looks for tslib, it should ask pkg-config for tslib-0.0 - also the version should *NEVER* include the Debian version string. The version of tslib is 1.0 - nothing more. xglamo cannot modify /usr/lib/pkgconfig/tslib-0.0.pc, so for xglamo to build in Debian, it must ask pkg-config for 'tslib-0.0'. The version is a minor bug in the upstream but this could only be fixed in experimental, not in unstable. I'll upload a patched version that sets AC_INIT at 1.0 once Lenny is released. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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