Hi, Diane, Thanks for working on this.
On November 8, 2017 7:58:49 PM EST, Diane Trout <di...@ghic.org> wrote: >One of the htslib developers filed a new bug, > >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881170 > >asking us to not make their private libraries public. His suggestions >are fairly similar to whats Charles proposed. > >What I'm thinking is: > >- TODO Recommit symbols file +1 >- TODO Split private cram headers off into a new libhts-private-dev >package I'd rather be in favor of restoring the bundled htslib to seqlib as the short term solution. Putting a private package in the archive may exacerbate the problem and is odd nevertheless. And there is another action item-- TODO update the htslib package to the latest release. >- WAITING Try to talk htslib & SeqLib developers to agree on a public >cram api so we can drop the private-dev package. > > > >[...] > >> >> > I was wondering if we should split the cram headers into a >> > libhts-private-dev so we can at least track what is depending on >> > the >> > non-public api. We would find this out anyway because the packages woukd break until either a dependency on such a package had to be added (most likely by our team anyway), or the library had to be rebundled. >> >[...] > >> >> > I did realize that my thought about updating the SOVERSION might be >> > wrong because I was just looking in the source tree for the removed >> > functions but I should have been checking the public header files. >> >> Indeed, packages using private functions need to have a tight >> dependency >> on the htslib (unless we are very confident that there are regression >> tests that cover this area of the code). Packages that are more >> well-behaved can infer their dependency through the (to be re-added) >> symbols file. > > > >So that implies packaging that uses -private-dev that implies they have >an == dependency on a specific binary version of libhts? > >That should probably probably be documented in a README.Debian for the >private-dev package. > Does this imply a transition for each htslib update? Many thanks and regards Afif
