On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:09:42PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > 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. Grmbl. I wonder if it's worth adding a compat shim for the old symbol versions. > > 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? That would be fine with me (and preferable in the general case), so long as packages that build-depend on libcurl3-dev can still be built -- either by restoring the libcurl3-dev real package, or by making whatever the new -dev package is Provides: libcurl3-dev. Thanks, -- 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]
