On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:25:56PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:56:17 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > [...] > > > Mapnik consists of a C++ shared library with python bindings. Also > > included are some .so plugins but I don't believe that they are > > problematic currently; they can simply reside in /usr/lib/mapnik/ . > > Remember to read the Python policy for the Python-related bits. > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
Yup, thanks :) > [...] > > > However, this library is still in active development. I'm working with > > SVN snapshots at the moment because there hasn't been a stable release > > for a while. I've been trying to work out what to recommend to > > upstream in the way of sonames and library versioning but I'm not > > really sure where to go. > > >From the webpage, the last release was last May, which is just over half > a year ago, which isn't really that long ago. > > In general, it's probably a bad idea to package SVN snapshots of a > library that changes ABI so quickly, since every ABI bump requires a new > binary package name in Debian. Hmm. Well, I sill encourage upstream to make a stable release before too long, but there's no point in doing that if he's not sure how to version it. > One other option, if you really must use the SVN snapshots, is to make > it a statically linked library. However, there are several concerns > related to static linking, so it should be avoided whenever possible. Okay. Assuming that I want to publish some at least partially useful packages (for a start, much of the use will be via python bindings rather than linking against the .so) until upstream has committed to an soname policy, and made a stable release, would it be acceptable to use experimental for this (ie where the package is otherwise policy-clean but doesn't have clean soname bumps during the tracking of SVN snapshots) or should I stick to having this in my private webspace (and losing autobuilding, bugtracking and other bits and pieces of functionality)? Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
