Re: How to bump the SONAME of a library ? [WAS: DH way to set SONAME]

2013-06-10 Thread Raúl Benencia
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:41:12AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > You really should read [1] if you're maintaining shared libraries in Debian > (it's a bit outdated but most things are still relevant). [2] is also a good > read, specially if you're doing upstream development, patching the l

Re: How to bump the SONAME of a library ? [WAS: DH way to set SONAME]

2013-06-10 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 10/06/13 01:04, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am not so sure what I must understand by `bump the SONAME': > given that libtool machinery is employed, does is mean that > `current' must be increased by one ? You really should read [1] if you're maintaining shared libraries in Debian

Re: How to bump the SONAME of a library ? [WAS: DH way to set SONAME]

2013-06-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am not so sure what I must understand by `bump the SONAME': > given that libtool machinery is employed, does is mean that > `current' must be

How to bump the SONAME of a library ? [WAS: DH way to set SONAME]

2013-06-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am not so sure what I must understand by `bump the SONAME': given that libtool machinery is employed, does is mean that `current' must be increased by one ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 09/06/13 12:53, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 09/06/13 08:00, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to >> my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. >> I know the the soname of a library can be specify by

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-09 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 09/06/13 13:12, Christoph Egger wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: >> Patching a library downstream to bump the SONAME needs to be done only in >> very >> special cases and when you know what you're doing. For instance you're going >> to >> break compatibility with third party software t

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-09 Thread Christoph Egger
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > Patching a library downstream to bump the SONAME needs to be done only in very > special cases and when you know what you're doing. For instance you're going > to > break compatibility with third party software that links against the old > SONAME. Well you also

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-09 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 09/06/13 08:00, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to > my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. > I know the the soname of a library can be specify by passing > appropriate options to the gcc tools: is a DH

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you both for your quick answer. On 09/06/13 08:29, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:00:39AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to >> my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. >>

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:00:39AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to > my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. > I know the the soname of a library can be specify by passing > appropriate options to

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Игорь Пашев
Changing package name is not enough. You should patch the library build system to produce different soname and library filename 2013/6/9, Jerome BENOIT : > Hello List, > > because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to > my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatc

DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. I know the the soname of a library can be specify by passing appropriate options to the gcc tools: is a DH way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To U