On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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. :/
eh.. this is very good point :/ > I don't suppose that upstream could be talked into rolling back the soname? he already expressed the intention to keep it, curl 7.16.x is on the road since oct 2006. > 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. the -dev package names went from libcurl3-* to libcurl4-*. how i can keep the old ones? should i push the original scheme of some years ago in which no soname is in the -dev packages? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
