On Monday 01 April 2013 14:01:34 you wrote: > On Mon 01 Apr 2013 13:27:52 Joachim Langenbach escribió: > [snip] > > > > - How stable the API is? > > > > The API is not that stable right now, but we are backporting everything > > possible to the 0 API version, which does not affect the API. So e. g. the > > current version of Meganizer is using the 0 API. > > > > > - According to [0] you don't actually maintain any other package in > > > Debian. Packaging libs it's not an easy task, and it's usually not > > > recommendable for packaging begginners. Please note that I'm not > > > implying that you are one, but [2] suggest so :-) > > > > Your absolutly right. I'm a beginner in packaging. But to package > > Meganizer, it is needed to package libengsas first ;-) Actually, I have > > done my first packaging steps with Meganizer (which, in an early version, > > was the source of libengsas). > > Non-stable API and a new maintainer are stuff that do not go along very well > :-/
;-) > While it's normally correct to ship the lib as a separate package, in this > case and as long as there is only one app using it, let me suggest you to > ship it with the app as a bundled lib, without the headers. May be I bark up the wrong tree, but I think the main advantage for the user will be lost than. I need to package libengsas in two versions (libengsas - without KDE usage and libengsas-kde with KDE usage), to let the user choose, whether he wants to install and use KDE or not. If I package libengsas with Meganizer, I must also provide all those packages, or the user must use and install KDE or he never can profit from KDE and it's features. So I made the choice for the user than and this is especially, what I want to ommit and developed libengsas for. But may be the not that stable API is a reason itself, to not add the package. In this case, I need to wait some time. > Once you get more used to packaging and the API becomes stable you could > consider packaging them separately. > > Kinds regards, Lisandro. Regards, Joachim Langenbach -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk