Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Hamish Moffatt | An advantage of keeping the old library in oldlibs for a while is that | local admins may have their own binaries compiled against these | libraries. Rapid replacements of libraries break local binaries. Not as long as you bump the package name. There's nothing pulling the ol

Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:41:38PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Uh, no. The old binary package should either be removed completely from > > the archive (in which case all packages that depend on it are instantly > > uninstallable), or be moved to a separate source package

Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Philipp Kern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Uh, no. The old binary package should either be removed completely from > the archive (in which case all packages that depend on it are instantly > uninstallable), or be moved to a separate source package in section > oldlibs.

Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > I got some questions to library packaging. If the ABI of a library > breaks, the SONAME of it gets updated and thus the binary package's > name. As soon as the new revision gets uploaded the old binary package > should get NBS (Not Bui

Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > I got some questions to library packaging. If the ABI of a library > breaks, the SONAME of it gets updated and thus the binary package's > name. As soon as the new revision gets uploaded the old binary package > should get NBS (Not Bui

Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Philipp Kern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear list readers, I got some questions to library packaging. If the ABI of a library breaks, the SONAME of it gets updated and thus the binary package's name. As soon as the new revision gets uploaded the old binary package should get NBS (Not Built