On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:24:12 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > On May 24, 2011, at 17:39, Jamey Sharp wrote: > > > Hi Jeremy! I don't know what happened with that release, but I wanted to > > point out that all of these libraries *are* browsable at > > cgit.freedesktop.org: Search for "xcb/util". > > Ah, thanks. I was searching for xcb-util and missed it. Apologies. > > > From a glance at xcb/util/src/Makefile, it looks like xcb-atom, -aux, > > and -event really are now merged as libxcb-util. > > > > If that merge is a packaging problem, we should certainly discuss > > whether it should be reverted or done differently somehow. It seems > > sensible to me, though. > > The merge isn't providing an unsolvable problem. I'm able to get around that > part with some symlinking to ensure that binaries linked against the old > version find the new version. > > The issue comes from the removal of API. Applications that use the old API > will no longer build after this change. > Well yeah, that's why the SONAME changed. Symlinks aren't the answer to that, rebuilding users against the new version is.
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