On 2020-09-27 Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote:
[...]
> I am looking for a sponsor to upload the package "libexif-gtk" to NEW,
> as switching to GTK 3 caused the main package to be renamed.
> * Package name : libexif-gtk
[...]
> The source builds the following binary packages:
> libexif-gtk-dev - Library providing GTK+ widgets to display/edit
> EXIF tags (development files)
> libexif-gtk5 - Library providing GTK+ widgets to display/edit EXIF
> tags (transitional package)
> libexif-gtk3-5 - Library providing GTK+ widgets to display/edit EXIF tags
[...]
Hello Hugh,
I have just taken a quick look:
[nitpick] Explicit b-dep on autopoint is superfluous, debhelper pulls it
in for dh_autoreconf.
The transitional package makes no sense, it actually causes breakage.
Packages depend on libexif-gtk5 because they need a library with soname
libexif-gtk.so.5. The dummy package makes libexif-gtk5 0.5.0-1 +
libexif-gtk3-5 fulfill this dependency without providing
libexif-gtk.so.5. Any package depending on libexif-gtk5 will need to be
rebuilt against libexif-gtk-dev 0.5 and will then depend on
libexif-gtk3-5.
Also libexif-gtk5 0.4 and libexif-gtk3-5 should be co-installable (no
breaks/replaces - policy 8.1, worth reading in whole), afaict this
should be easily possible once the gettext message catalogues names are
versioned. I /think/ (untested!) this should do the trick:
--- libexif-gtk-0.5.0.orig/configure.ac
+++ libexif-gtk-0.5.0/configure.ac
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dnl GP_CONFIG_MSG([Features])
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL_LINGUAS="de es fr pl ru"
AM_PO_SUBDIRS
-GP_GETTEXT_HACK([${PACKAGE}-${LIBEXIF_GTK_CURRENT}],
+GP_GETTEXT_HACK([${PACKAGE}3-${LIBEXIF_GTK_CURRENT}],
cu Andreas
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