Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Step 1: > Looks like ideal move would be to create libpoppler0.5-dev; -glib and > -qt bindings didn't change API, so they could keep their name. > > Step 2: > And I will introduce debian specific SONAME for libpoppler, so we are > not hit by random ABI changes.
I have no experience with that, but naively I would assume that we rather keep the soname until testing (or just information from upstream) indicates an actual ABI change? > Step 3: > I would like to look at possibility of creating libpoppler-plain library > with minimal subset of functionality needed by other packages and stable > (incremental) API. > > Step 4: > In future we should drop libpoppler-dev at all and have just > -plain,-glib,-qt bindings -dev packages available. > > Agreed? Yes, especially if someone else does the work for steps 3 and 4... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
