Hi, On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 22:18:32 +0100 Jonathan McCrohan <jmccro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Source: libconfig > Followup-For: Bug #869596 > > I am aware of this, but libconfig 1.6 is not suitable for upload to > Debian right now. At the most basic level, the SONAME has not been > bumped despite ABI breakage [1]. This is outstanding for 18 months at > this stage, and the original upstream maintainer even advises people to > revert to 1.5 for now [2]. > > Until these issues are fixed, I do not plan on uploading libconfig 1.6 > to Debian. > > [1] https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/issues/49 > [2] https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/issues/47#issuecomment-220809446
Since then libconfig 1.7.2 has been released in 11/2017 which bumps the soname to so.11 and both issues have been closed. bullseye is in hard freeze now so now is probably not the best time debian-wise, but I guess nothing prevents from updating libconfig in sid and prepare for the next release. The changelog[1] has plenty of fixes and changes, in particular I would have liked to rely on the more lenient syntax for trailing commas on list and arrays, but unfortunately it doesn't look like I will be able to... [1] https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/blob/master/ChangeLog I'm actually rather bad with debian but I did a local build with the following debian directory[2] successfully, if that helps (based on the 1.5-0.4 package, renaming things from 9 to 11 as I could). Since the soname was bumped both can be installed in parallel with no problem. Feel free to use part of all of it if you'd like. [2] https://codewreck.org/debian/libconfig_1.7.2-1.debian.tar.xz Thanks, -- Dominique
