On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:15:34AM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:04:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It's been my experience with this kind of ABI breakage that the only > > good way out is through. If upstream has not been responsive to the > > need to change the soname in response to the ABI changes, then I would > > at least recommend changing the library package name to something like > > libmagick6debian1 so that this can be sorted out within the Debian > > package dependencies in unstable while we're waiting.
> I've just gotten a response from upstream that they're going to bump the > soname in the upcoming release 6.2.4-4 which is due in the next days. > (And in terms of imagemagick release frequency, days usually really > means days and not weeks.) Given that the breakage must have been around > since the beginning of June, we can probably afford to wait these extra > days before starting to pull Debian-specific stunts, I think. Ok, great to hear. > The cleanup work won't be any less anyway. Unfortunately, introducing > the bumped soname means we'll be adding yet another transition to the > pile. Yeah, but you definitely have priority here given that the ABI has already been broken for a while. Anyway, it looks like this one is going to be tied up with both the KDE and the libsnmp transitions. Should be fun. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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