Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-16 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > That presumably makes this package undistributable, or have I > misunderstood? Yes, I think so as well. Fortunately, these files aren't important for the BLT library at all. In fact, I've found only one piece of software which ever us

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-16 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:46:14AM -0600, Sergei Golovan wrote: > On the other hand, I've reviewed the licenses for the source codes and > found a few > disturbing files. They are library/dd_protocols/*.tcl (I've attached > one of them here). > The copyright statement stands: Copyright (c) 1993 AT

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-15 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> > You can't keep a dummy package on SONAME changes, since it doesn't > actually provide the ABI older versions of its rdeps expect. I've added 'Breaks' header for all packages that depended on the older library. Specifically it is: Break

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:46:14 -0600, Sergei Golovan wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 13:58:10 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > >> > >> Hello release team, > >> Since this is going to be a transition, and a new upstream SONAME for

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-14 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi! On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 13:58:10 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> >> Hello release team, >> Since this is going to be a transition, and a new upstream SONAME for >> jessie seems unlikely, should this bug be jessie-ignore'd >> and fixed fo

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 13:58:10 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 at 15:46:28 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:07 AM, peter green wrote: > > > That only partially solves the problem, in particular partial upgrades are > > > still likely to break. Furthe

Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name

2014-11-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 at 15:46:28 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:07 AM, peter green wrote: > > That only partially solves the problem, in particular partial upgrades are > > still likely to break. Furthermore the problem will recur next time libBLT > > changes it's soname.