Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Yadd,
On 2023-12-17 11:31, Yadd wrote:
Source: gemmi Version: 0.6.3+ds-1 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Hi, currently src:gemmi builds gemmi and gemmi-dev. This doesn't permit to build any software using gemmi-dev without static linking. The proposed patch adds package libgemmi1 which contains the shared library.
I appreciate the idea and your patch, thanks for giving gemmi a look. However, I am hesitant to package gemmi shared library for Debian for now. The previous two releases had breaking API changes each. If upstream handles this properly and bumps the soversion, then this is fine, although having to undergo a transition twice a year is still quite some work. However, if the upstream does not maintain ABI stability inside the same soversion, then I would say the shared library is not yet ready for Debian.
You have marked this bug as severity:important. Does this mean you need gemmi's shared library for some package?
I never had the need to manually trigger the ldconfig before. The issue might be the lack of 'Section: libs' in binary package description.
Thanks, Andrius
