On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Ian Goldberg <i...@cypherpunks.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:33:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Ian Goldberg wrote: >> >> >>So 7 clients use it, so I am not going to assume all of these can fix >> >>their code within a few days. >> > >> >Indeed not. They can continue to depend on the old version of libotr. >> >(Your libotr3 package, if I understand it? But does that mean you have >> >to change all of the above packages to explicitly name libotr3? If I >> >understand the Debian/Ubuntu method correctly, the package name has been >> >libotr2 all along, and all those other programs name libotr2 as their >> >dependency. The new package will be libotr5, and programs that update >> >their use of libotr can then switch their dependency to libotr5.) >> >> Yes, I will send patches to the maintainers of these to change their >> Require: libotr to Require: libotr < 4. The libotr3 package will supply >> libotr < 4, while the libotr package will supply libotr >= 4. > > Since they're using the libotr 3 API, shouldn't they require libotr == > 3? And the new libotr package will supply libotr == 4, and the new > pidgin-otr package will require libotr == 4? (As opposed to >= 4?)
I think all that is relatively pointless. Ian: libotr2 will no longer be actively maintained/developed when libotr5 is released, right? If so, I plan to move on with the current state of things in Debian: libotr 4.0.0 (source package providing libotr5, -dev and -bin) will *replace* libotr 3.2.1 (source package providing libotr2, -dev and -bin) at which point packages that still require libotr2 will simply break, and their respective maintainers will have to take action. I don't think libotr has that many dependencies nor is that a critical package that it warrants the maintaining of 2 different versions over the lifetime of major linux and BSD distributions just for the sake of easing dependencies' transitions. At least for Debian, that's how things will be done. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
