Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Matthias Klose] > > correct, it's not needed. please don't "fix" things that are not > > broken. I verified that every library and application, which depends > > on libclan2-*, also depends on libclanlib2/libclanlib2c2. We are > > doing the same with kdelibs4/kdelibs4c2: no other library depending > > on kdelibs4c2 will be renamed. > > Ah, good to see that my early warning had some effect. > > Am I reading > <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00001.html> > incorrectly? The way I read it, it say that all libraries packages > changing ABI should also change package name, independend of the > amount of packages depending on them or not. > > As it is no way to check all packages depending on package (after all, > not all packages are in the debian archive), I agree with those notes > that renaming packages when changing the ABI is the only safe way to > handle this.
Yes, it's not documented, and finally remains the decision of the package maintainer. It saves a good amount work on depending library packages for kde. If the work is already done for clanlib, you can't save the work anymore ;-P Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
