Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:37:27AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
[...] > libpanel-applet2-dev libpng3-dev libwmf-dev libwnck-dev libzvbi-dev > libzvt2.0-dev > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libpng2-dev > You are lazy? I don't see that as a GOOD reason to break an ABI and > backwards compatibility for our users. I use sbuild to build things > in a chroot in any case, so that my packages on hold or taken from > random repositories don't influence the builds. Others use pbuilder. > Perhaps you might want to look at building in a chroot, if you find > this such a big problem. Since when an user should install a chrooot environment to install a package ? This is unacceptable. [...] > You just need to bump the gdk-pixbuf soname and build this package > against libpng3-dev. Whats wrong with that ? Nothing. Old packages > linked against libgdk-pixbuf2 still continue to works. > What's wrong with that? Random third party applications no longer have > the library available, and stop running. Hardly a service to our users just > so developers can be lazy. Old packages linked against libgdk-pixbuf2 would > become uninstallable, as libgdk-pixbuf2 would no longer exist, and Debian No. You just need to rename he original tarball and libraries like Steve M. Robbins did for gdk-imlib. This will solve this problem definitely. > will be unique in being the only distro with libgdk-pixbuf3 for gnome1. The > soname of the library is for upstream to set, not for packagers to muddle > with, if one cares about compatibility. Anyway this will be the latest gdk-pixbuf upstream tarball for G1, then there is no importance to change the libraries soname. Christian
