Re: libkpathsea3 incompatibility problem
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)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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