Sven, You said that you contacted upstream, but Martin hasn't been upstream for libgtop for about 2 years. Contact either Kevin Vandersloot (or myself in very very last resort) for problems about libgtop.
libgtop is a piece of crap that needs to die, and that nobody wants to take care of. Cheers On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:22, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > libgtop2 is currently broken in debian unstable, and No�l K�the is too > busy to fix it right now. I maintain packages that depend on libgtop2 > and also use others that depend on libgtop2. All these packages have > become unusable since libgtop2 broke. > > I am then trying to prepare a non-maintainer-upload of libgtop2, and > have noticed the following problems : > > 1) The soname of libgtop2 did change in 2.0.2 from 2.0.1 (from > libgtop-2.0.so.0 to libgtop-2.0.so.1). But no mention of this is made > in the ChangeLog. So, the question is this soname change warranted, > because the binary incompatibility did change, or spurious and should > be reverted. > > 2) I noticed that the libgtop2 libraries are built, not against the > libraries currentyl building, but against the installed ones, which is > severly broken, as libgtop-2.0.so.1.0.1 is linked to the older > libgtop_common-2.0.so.0 and libgtop_sysdeps-2.0.so.0, which naturally > don't work once the package is installed. > > This second point, i have had a quick look but i was not able to quickly > fix the build system so this doesn't happen, maybe you could provide me > some insight or hint on how to fix this (or even a patch or new > release ?). > > Hope you don't mind my comments and questions, and again, i am not the > debian maintainer of this package, and Noel may well know these things > already. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
