Frank Küster píše v Út 03. 10. 2006 v 16:29 +0200: > Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:39 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > >> Dear Ondrej! > >> > >> Can you now tell us what the status is? It is a bit unclear for me? I > >> can create new packages for texlive-bin with the changed patch, or leave > >> it. > >> > >> Are the packages you want to upload to unstable already in experimental, > >> or available in any other place? If yes I could at least try in my > >> cowbuilder whether building works. > > > > 0.5.4-2 is in experimental (i386) and can be used as base for > > transition. > > Well, we can use them as a base for testing. However, it seems as if > starting the transition would be a bit premature. I have seen a couple > of questions that are not yet answered: > > - Since the API changed, shouldn't the -dev package change its name, or > is this information in the Library Packaging Guide controversial? Or > even if it's generally consensual, should the name still be kept > unchanged because plain libpoppler doesn't guarantee any API anyway? > > - In any case, shouldn't we carefully check all affected packages, > whether they FTBFS and whether they still work? This would IMO > require a phase where all of them are in experimental, except poppler > itself in case it gets a new dev package name.
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. 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? Ondrej. -- Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
