Hi Sven. I'm cc's Andrew Sobala who actually produced the latest release. I believe that binary compatibility was not broken between the two releases, so the soname change is probably not warrented.
I'm not sure about 2) :( To clarify Bastien's comments: I'm kinda the maintainer right now since I wrote GNOME System Monitor and noone remains to maintain libgtop. Unfortunately I know very little about the libgtop code and am a little afraid to mess with it ;) I think everyone agrees that a replacement would be nice (especially since libgtop doesn't build on Solaris ATM). Otherwise we need someone to step in and really maintain the code. I don't really have to time to do it. However, right now there is no replacement available so there is no plan to move to a different library. Regards, Kevin On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:29, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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]>
