Bug#610933: [Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2012-01-20 Thread Ludovico Gardenghi
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 13:58:01 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Oh, that seems reasonable. This seems to have been discussed recently on the debian-policy list (search for I don't think there's much gain in relaxing this): http://bugs.debian.org/556015#141

Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ludovico Gardenghi wrote: * Add patch for fixing wrong SONAME for libraries. -version-number had been used instead of version-info, this gave incorrect SONAMEs and broke compatibility between this version and the previous ones (althought there is no actual ABI

Bug#610933: [Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2012-01-19 Thread Ludovico Gardenghi
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:06:30 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: * Add patch for fixing wrong SONAME for libraries. -version-number had been used instead of version-info, this gave incorrect SONAMEs and broke compatibility between this version and the previous ones (althought

Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2012-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ludovico Gardenghi wrote: I'm not sure there is a really clean way to deal with this without uselessly breaking backward compatibility. It seemed cleaner than keeping 3:1:0 and creating symlinks .so.2 - .so.3 or similar. Makes sense. Uhm, ok. I

Bug#610933: [Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2011-11-28 Thread Ludovico Gardenghi
Hello, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:43:03 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ping? I've had vde2 on hold because of this bug for several months now. IMHO if the package in experimental is not being maintained, it should be removed --- it will still be available from snapshot.debian.org. Thanks

Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2011-11-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ludovico, Ludovico Gardenghi wrote: Thanks for the report and sorry for the delay. No problem and glad to hear from you. Indeed the conflict will be needed with the next release, as we're much probably going to move libvdeplug.so from the -dev package to the shared library one That

Bug#610933: [Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2011-11-28 Thread Ludovico Gardenghi
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 05:34:31 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Indeed the conflict will be needed with the next release, as we're much probably going to move libvdeplug.so from the -dev package to the shared library one That violates policy ยง8.1 Run-time shared libraries and would make

Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

2011-11-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ludovico Gardenghi wrote: (In any case, I still can't figure out what should be the *proper* way for a program for dlopening a .so while providing the version number... should it loop over all the (infinite :-)) possible SONAMEs who offer compatibility for the needed interface version? Ah!