Re: libkpathsea3 incompatibility problem

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
Subject: libkpathsea3 incompatibility problem
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:20:46 +0000

> So now what do we do?  Presumably, all of these packages will break
> once the new libkpathsea3 is installed, so here are the obvious
> options:
> 
> (1) File RC bugs against all of these packages, requiring them to
>     recompile against the newer libkpathsea3, and have versioned
>     Conflicts: with the old versions of these dozen or so packages.
> 
> (2) Change the so version number of the libkpathsea library to 4, even
>     though this matches nothing in the upstream, and provide an old
>     libkpathsea3 package in oldlibs for compatibility (this would be a
>     source package entirely separate from tetex-bin derived from the
>     old teTeX sources).
> 
> (3) Like (2), but change the so version number to 0 to indicate
>     unstable interface.
> 
> I prefer (2) or (3).  Other comments?

Well, although a rough sketch,

(4) make a dummy package libkpathsea-dummy or so which 
have versioned Conflicts: with the old versions of the 
above packages, and libkpathses3 Depends: on it.

Doesn't this work?

Best regards,			2003-2-20(Thu)

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