On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:01:11PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:43:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:38:16PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > yes, we also have a libcurl transition. > > > should i now throw it in the wild wild unstable archive? > > Could you please explain why this transition is needed in the first place? > > A quick inspection shows that, except for the symbol version change, the > > list of symbols exported by each of libcurl3_7.15.5-1 and libcurl4_7.16.1-1 > > is identical. > there is a libcurl function, curl_easy_setopt(3), which is used to pass > options to the libcurl engine. starting with 7.16.0, thrird party ftp > optionos has been removed. That doesn't sound like a very good reason for an soname change to me, especially when curl_easy_setopt() is defined to return CURLE_FAILED_INIT on requests for unknown options. :/ I don't suppose that upstream could be talked into rolling back the soname? Anyway, even if the soname changes, you seem to have changed the names of the -dev packages as well -- if the only incompatible change is dropping a handful of deprecated ftp options, that's *definitely* not warranted. Please revert the -dev package names before uploading to unstable, I'd really rather we didn't have to do sourceful uploads of 120 reverse-dependencies on top of everything else, on account of an upstream decision to turn a non-ABI-breaking change into an ABI-breaking one. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
