On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 23:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:19 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > I'm adopting libffm, and noticed that it has the erroneous soname of > >> > libffm.so.0. Since the library interface has changed on just about > >> > every upgrade, it should really be libffm.so.0.28. > >> > > >> > On the other hand, the interface has only changed once since it was made > >> > a Debian package, so libffm.so.1 sort of makes sense. But this is > >> > incompatible with upstream's name. > >> > > >> > So I'd like to leave the package name as libffm1(-dev), but change the > >> > soname. Packages won't need to change dependencies, but binaries built > >> > against it will need to relink since libffm.so.0 will no longer exist. > >> > As far as I know, the only package affected is illuminator, which I > >> > maintain (hence my adoption, as it was headed for the trash bin). > >> > > >> > Any comments/objections? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > > >> > -Adam > >> > >> Why not rename the package and soname to libffm0.28(-dev) so they make > >> sense and match up again? > > > > You know, that makes sense. If I'm going to change the soname, so > > packages have to be rebuilt anyway, I really should change the package > > name with it (policy may even require it). (That should have been > > obvious to me...) > > > > Since it's not likely that people will want to install multiple versions > > of the -dev package, I'll just make that libffm-dev. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Adam > > Don't forget to change the name on every _API_ change. Sounds like the > lib is till highly under developement so I wouldn't be surprised if > the API changes slightly with releases as well.
Right, used to be under heavy development. But they haven't had a release since 1998. :-) -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
