Hi On 2017-07-20 16:52:32, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > adding Marcelo and Fabrice (upstream upnp) to Cc. > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:34:42PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > > currently there are two versions of libupnp in the archive (libupnp6 and > > > libupnp-1.8-10). To be able to remove libupnp6 (i.e. the older of the > > > two) it is necessary to port vlc (and all other rdepends) to > > > libupnp-1.8. > > > > > > The patch below implements this for vlc. With this applied I can still > > > playback videos with vlc. > > > > As long as the adoption to upnp 1.8 requires to add -1.8 everywhere (are we > > supposed to change it to -1.9 next month with the next upstream release?), > > this > > was explicitly NAKed upstream. > > Which upstream? vlc I suppose? Do you have a link to the discussion > handy?
Yes, vlc upstream. This was over IRC and I don't have logs. But I'm sure J-B will repeat it if necessary (CCed) > > > So please fix the include paths and the name of the pkg-config module > > to point back to upnp. > > That is something that I think should be possible but I wonder what > happens to the projects that already adopted the -1.8 naming. (Probably > this could be fixed by providing both, libupnp-1.8 and libupnp.) > > > All other parts of the patch can be done with a simple SONAME bump and a > > normal > > library transition and adding calls to UpnpDiscovery_get_*_cstr depending > > on the > > upnp version. > > It should even be possible to add these wrapper functions to 1.6 to ease > being compatible to both 1.6 and 1.8. > > Now given that it doesn't seem sensible for Debian to divert from > upstream here, the big question is: Marcelo and Fabrice, what do you > think? > > Best regards > Uwe -- Sebastian Ramacher
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