On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:25:23PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:48:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:09:42PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > 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. > uh? It would be possible to add all of the old symbol versions to libcurl.so.4 and provide a libcurl.so.3 -> libcurl.so.4 symlink, to provide full backwards compatibility. I'm pondering out loud whether this would be worth the effort of doing. > > > 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. > so it would be: > libcurl4-dev provide: libcurl-dev > libcurl4-openssl-dev provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, > libcurl3-openssl-dev > libcurl4-gnutls-dev provide: libcurl-dev, libcurl-ssl-dev, > libcurl3-gnutls-dev > libcurl-dev and libcurl-ssl-dev are already in place since the > non-ssl/ssl scission, long time ago. > my intention is to add also a non-ssl libcurl flavour with > libcurl4-dev. libcurl3-dev has been a transition package to install > libcurl3-openssl-dev. hence those depending on libcurl3-dev instead of > libcurl3-openssl would have a bug. That's incredibly lame, given that libcurl3-dev is what most packages build-depend on (62 out of 73, according to 'dak rm'). My entire point was that you shouldn't break your library's reverse-dependencies without reason! -- 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]
