Hi Sergei, On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:34AM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> The current libsdl-erlang package in unstable on mips architecture is > built using erlang 11.b.2 and doesn't work with current erlang 11.b.4. > Could someone schedule a binary-only upload of libsdl-erlang on mips > architecture? (Or should we upload a new package version?) This points to a sourceful bug in either libsdl-erlang or in erlang. Rebuilding libsdl-erlang on mips in unstable does *not* fix the problem that all of the libsdl-erlang binaries in *stable* were built against an earlier erlang, and have a dependency on erlang-base (>= 1:11.b.1-1) | erlang-base-hipe (>= 1:11.b.1-1). If erlang versions are not backwards-compatible, then there needs to be proper handling of such transitions in the erlang packages -- preferably by providing erlang packages (virtual or real) with an "abiname" that packages such as libsdl-erlang can depend on in the manner of shared libraries. There seems to already be some measure of support for this in the form of 'erlang-depends', so once erlang itself is fixed, binNMUs for libsdl-erlang are certainly an option; but I'm not going to schedule a binNMU that effectively paints over this issue. 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]
