Michael Terry <[email protected]> writes: > In Ubuntu, I was rebasing to Debian and noticed that the only difference we > still held was the attached patch to enable thread support. Seems like > something Debian would want too? > > The original notice for this change was: > > - Build with thread support. Some guile-using programs like autogen need > it. > - Add debian/guile-1.8-libs.shlibs: Thread support breaks ABI, bump the > soname. > > Thanks for considering the patch.
I'll have to look at the patch, but the original reason I never supported 1.8 threads in Debian is because I released a version without threads -- threads were broken early on, and a releasing a newer threaded version would break the ABI. I see from the comment above that the ABI was bumped, but I'll have to examine how that was done. Previously, I couldn't bump the soname because it might conflict with the 2.0 sonames, once 2.0 was released. I haven't checked to see what they chose yet. In any case, my current plan is just to finish packaging 2.0, which will have threads, and then start planning the removal of 1.8. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
