Bug#613347: compatibility symlinks for libbsdxml
2011/2/15 Daniel Leidert daniel.leid...@wgdd.de: This library has the same API as the libbsdxml library that is used on FreeBSD. Obviously, when porting software from FreeBSD that depends on libbsdxml, we adjust it to use Debian libexpat instead. It would be easier though if libexpat provided compatibility symlinks or another mechanism such that #include bsdxml.h works, and so does -lbsdxml in linker flags. Not a big problem. What about a libbsdxml-compat-dev (or libbsdxml-expat-dev) package for kfreebsd*, that depends on libexpat-dev and ships the symlinks? Sounds fine to me. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613347: compatibility symlinks for libbsdxml
Package: libexpat1-dev Version: 2.0.1-7 Severity: wishlist User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd This library has the same API as the libbsdxml library that is used on FreeBSD. Obviously, when porting software from FreeBSD that depends on libbsdxml, we adjust it to use Debian libexpat instead. It would be easier though if libexpat provided compatibility symlinks or another mechanism such that #include bsdxml.h works, and so does -lbsdxml in linker flags. Thanks for considering -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libexpat1-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7XML parsing C library - runtime li libexpat1-dev recommends no packages. libexpat1-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613347: compatibility symlinks for libbsdxml
Am Montag, den 14.02.2011, 10:02 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: [..] Usertags: kfreebsd This library has the same API as the libbsdxml library that is used on FreeBSD. Obviously, when porting software from FreeBSD that depends on libbsdxml, we adjust it to use Debian libexpat instead. It would be easier though if libexpat provided compatibility symlinks or another mechanism such that #include bsdxml.h works, and so does -lbsdxml in linker flags. Not a big problem. What about a libbsdxml-compat-dev (or libbsdxml-expat-dev) package for kfreebsd*, that depends on libexpat-dev and ships the symlinks? Of course also libexpat-dev could ship these symlinks, but it would require some kind of architecture-limited provides (I cannot remember, if this is even possible - need to check it). Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
