So, there's a new upstream version, which (as usual) bumps the soname,
and this is a good point to split the libraries and close this bug.
Looking at the situation:
- we need to split libprotobufX into libprotobufX and libprotocX, but
libprotocX will depend on libprotobufX, so it will have to depend on
that
- we need to split libprotobuf-dev into libprotobuf-dev and
libprotoc-dev, but the headers in protoc-dev need headers from the
protobuf-dev pacakage, so it will have to depend on that
As such, the main gain to me is the possibility of not having the
libprotoc shared library installed when only running programs compiled
against libprotobuf (but not running the compiler); given the
(seemingly) tight link between the protobuf and protoc libraries and
sources in upstream, I don't reasonably think they will get out of sync
(but they could, of course).
So I will proceed with the split (after testing carefully the -dev
package situation, of course), but I'm not sure the cost of two new
packages is compensated by the gain. Just saying :)
iustin
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