Hi Varun, On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:51 -0400 Varun Hiremath <[email protected]> wrote:
> > They are not compatible: > > ----------- > $$ mono-api-check -2 2.1.5/usr/lib/cli/flickrnet-2.1.5/FlickrNet.dll > 2.2/usr/lib/cli/flickrnet-2.2/FlickrNet.dll CLI API Check > Assembly Name: FlickrNet > Missing Interfaces: 8 > Additional Interfaces: 63 > > The two assemblies you compared are NOT API compatible! > You must use a new package name! > > The new assembly has additional interfaces. You must raise > the minimal version in clilibs! > > The assembly versions do NOT MATCH! > If they are API compatible you MUST generate and install a GAC policy > file! ----------- > mono-api-check might produce false-positives, to make sure there are missing interface that actually cause an ABI breakage use the ilcontrast tool from the mono-tools-gui package. > > Apart from these changes I also added Conflicts/Replaces the older > version 2.1.5 mainly because the symlink > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/flickrnet.pc exists in both the packages and dpkg > complains while upgrading. Using Replaces here is good but do _not_ use Conflicts. The point of versioning the packages exposing an ABI compatibility would be useless if 2 different ABIs could not be installed at the same time. The GAC explicitly allows this though! The Replaces will make sure the pkg-config file will be replaced with the newer one. We know that this is a bit hacky but we have no other solution yet defined in the Debian CLI Policy. We plan to add libfoo-cil-dev packages (without any version) like the C libs have which would fix the hacky Replaces-only solution. > > So, what next? Upload to experimental and file bugs to update all > rdeps? Should we also provide some transition package 2.1.5-cil > depending on 2.2-cil? Such transition package is useless because the runtime will refuse to load the assembly with a different assembly version than the one that was linked at compile time (except GAC policy files are used but only if the ABI is compatible). > > I have committed my changes to pkg-cli-libs svn and new package in > available on my homepage [1]. > > Thanks for your comments. > > -Varun > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~varun/ > > -- Regards, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key ID: 0xEEF946C8 FOSS Developer [email protected] http://www.meebey.net/ PEAR Developer [email protected] http://pear.php.net/ Debian Developer [email protected] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
