Your message dated Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:55:08 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#676372: API breakage has caused the Debian Bug report #676372, regarding API breakage to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libdebian-installer4 Version: 0.80 Severity: serious File: /usr/lib/libdebian-installer.so.4 At some point between squeeze and wheezy the declaration of di_release_file.sum has changed from char * to char **. This breaks the API making it impossible to compile software (e.g. cdebootstrap) for stable and testing/unstable without ugly hacks. For example in cdebootstrap the following code is needed: if (sizeof(item->sum[0]) == sizeof(char*)) { if (item->sum[1]) return check_sum (target, "sha1sum", (const char*)(intptr_t)item->sum[1], buf_name); if (item->sum[0]) return check_sum (target, "md5sum", (const char*)(intptr_t)item->sum[0], buf_name); } else { return check_sum (target, "md5sum", (const char*)item->sum, buf_name); } This is an API and ABI breakage requiring a rename to libdebian-installter5[-dev]. Alternatively change the declaration of struct di_release_file to struct di_release_file { union { char *filename; /**< filename */ di_rstring key; /**< @internal */ }; unsigned int size; /**< size */ char *sum; /**< checksum, currently md5 or sha */ char *sums[2]; /**< checksums, currently md5 and sha1 */ }; filling both sum and sums. It would be nice to also have some define declared so sources can check if di_release_file.sums is available. Something simpler than having to compare the LIBDI_VERSION like #define DEBIAN_INSTALLER__RELEASE_MULTISUM 1 #define DEBIAN_INSTALLER__RELEASE_SUM0 md5 #define DEBIAN_INSTALLER__RELEASE_SUM1 sha1 MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libdebian-installer4 depends on: ii libc6 2.13-32 libdebian-installer4 recommends no packages. libdebian-installer4 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:22:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > This is an API and ABI breakage requiring a rename to > libdebian-installter5[-dev]. This is only an API breakage and I will not do anything about it. Bastian -- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved; never to have shown love. -- Commissioner Nancy Hedford, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
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