Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:10:43PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Even if packages in sid may work at this time, ahve you verified the >> same for packages from lenny and/or stable? What about locally compiled >> software? Simply bump the SONAME and be done with it. We will happily >> schedule binNMUs for all of your r-depends. > I can bump the soname but then I'd be out of sync with upstream, which > unfortunately has other opinions about this issue. What about creating a > .shlibs file that makes packages depending on the -dev package depend on > libgmime-2.0-2 >= 2.2.11?
What about leaving the SONAME as it is and simply use libgmime-2.0-2a as package name? You don't need only to fix packages which are now built against the new packages, but also ensure that no old package can be installed together with the new gmime ABI. Marc -- BOFH #104: backup tape overwritten with copy of system manager's favourite CD
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