Control: tags -1 pending On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 21:43 +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 01:57 +0100, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 01:37:23AM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > > > If the package split is done, one issue is that the glfw native > > > functions are different in X11 and Wayland. To use the provides > > > system, the libraries should offer identical ABIs so some > > > (probably > > > dummy) Wayland functions will need to be added to the X11 library > > > and vice-versa. > > > > This probably shouldn’t be a blocker, a program would then only > > depend on the version it was compiled against, or maybe be compiled > > twice in the case it uses both. > > This does mean that the Wayland version cannot be co-installed with > anything in Debian which (transitively) depends on the X11 version, > and also means you can't switch between the libraries safely without > recompiling any rdeps. If that's good enough for you then I'm ok with > implementing it, but it does seem less than perfect.
I'm going to upload this now since it does improve the situation. A Provides system can be added later if the ABI stuff is sorted out. Thanks, James
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