On 2008-04-07, Christophe Prud'homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Christophe
> Hi Ramon > > I guess that you wanted to send your email to the debian-kde list ;) > I agree with you that the lib renaming is going to trigger quite a lot > of problems. > I had indeed to reinstall skype using the static lib because the > libqt4-core renaming. We do our best to keep it simple. but issues like abi changes and stuff needs to be dealt with properly. As a boost maintainer I think you know about that ;) We might provide a libqt4-core transitional package, but taht is still undecided. (please see thread on -release) I don't know if ubuntu will follow the rename. /Sune > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Ramon Antonio Parada ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you really sure that removing libqt4-core and adding libqtcore4 is >> a good idea? Maybe can be different packages but what I really care >> about is dependencies. Any application that runs with libqt4-core 4.3 >> will run if you have installed libqtcore4. Compatibility must be >> maintained forward, not backward. >> >> 1. User's won't just have problems when updating to qt 4.4. External >> packages like skype will take months for updating, becoming broken. >> (Runs ok both with libqt4-core 4.3 and libqtcore4 4.4 but depends on >> libqt4-core). Then they will have to deal with Ubuntu Dapper that >> includes libqt4-core 4.3. >> >> 3. After that don't know if Ubuntu will do the same renaming for next >> version but many people will still use Dapper so in worst case there >> will be three or four different combinations and packages (or >> dependency changes) must be done to deal with this situation. >> >> >> Don't have a good knowledge of the reasons for renaming but please, >> Keep It Simple >> >> >> -- >> Ramon Antonio Parada >> Skype: ramon.parada >> Spain: +34 651 948819 >> US: +1 (310) 651-8072 >> http://ramonantonio.net/ >> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
