On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:15:32AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Any change that requires an ABI change and a subsequent soname bump and > recompile of all related software is not one that I would call > "trivial".
I guess we can agree to disagree on this point then. > We are in the late stages of a freeze in preparation for the > next stable release of Debian, and parted is heavily used by our > installer -- which is what makes this particular bug so important at > present, but it also makes a forced recompile awkward and rather > irritating. I find it surprising that this is inconvienient... I thought Debian had an automated build system that took the pain out of this kind of thing. But, my surprise doesn't improve your difficulties :/ > I defer to your expertise when it comes to decisions of what the > libparted ABI should look like in the long term; this particular ABI > change just happens to be particularly ill-timed from our POV. I see. > I'm willing to do the work necessary for a backport, but it seems the > public CVS revision history of libparted is unfortunately rather spotty. > :/ I have only been checking in working code after testing, so sorry about that. (I should be using rtags, I know!) Can I suggest another option: you could use either Steffen Winterfeldt's patch, or my version of it? I believe it solves all the important problems that users have been running into, and it doesn't change the ABI at all. (We discussed this a bit on IRC... I'm posting this email for public record ;) Cheers, Andrew
