Package: libgeda20 Version: 20060906-2 Severity: serious Hi Hamish,
So looking at libgeda for bug #400252 brings another RC bug to my attention: you have not been changing your library package name in keeping with the soname changes of this library, and the shlibs provided by libgeda reference this same, unchanging package name, which means any packages built against an older version of the package will be installable but broken when a new soname of the lib is available. Evidently you've worked around this in all the in-archive packages that depend on libgeda by adding versioned conflicts each time a new version of libgeda comes out, which explains some of the other release-critical bugs I've seen in the past. This is technically sound for those packages in Debian, albeit high-maintenance and aesthetically displeasing; but shlibs files must contain sufficient information that *others* get correct dependencies when linking against your library as well, which is currently not the case. In addition, since there are no file overlaps between subsequent versions of libgeda, this breaks co-installability of packages built against different versions of libgeda for no apparent reason. If there *were* file conflicts between the different versions, I would say that your use of Provides: is a perfectly reasonable technical solution and that the only thing in need of fixing is the shlibs file, but as it stands I think this is a gratuitous deviation from Debian library best practices. Please fix libgeda so that the library package name matches the soname, and update the shlibs to match. Although this does mean new upstream versions of libgeda will have to go through the NEW queue, it also should require much less packaging work on the whole when updating... The library package name is not a release-critical issue, BTW, so if you insist on keeping this package name, geda won't be kicked from the release because of it. But the shlibs do need to be fixed. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
