Il giorno mar, 17/03/2009 alle 10.17 +0000, Enrico Zini ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to get to the point of uploading #519184. However I have
> one issue on which I'm unsure: the library API and ABI would be stable
> enough, but upstream is not building or supporting shared libraries yet.
> Last time I asked, he had some libtool problem in some obscure
> architecture and no time to investigate on it.
>
> Here are the possible options that I could think of:
>
> 1. Patch the package to build a shared library; I already have the
> patch prepared and working. What version should I pass to libtool?
> 0:0:0 is quite obvious, and hopefully when upstream will get to
> shared libraries he will pick a higher one, but what if upstream
> will break API or ABI once or several times before starting to
> support shared libraries? This is unlikely, but it cannot be
> assumed to be impossible.
Use library versions, i.e., libfoo-1.2.3.so. Then, until upstream choose
an appropriate soname, every new release will "break" the API and
require a new Debian package but it is better than being forced to reuse
a soname (o worse, use a different soname than upstream) later. IMHO.
> 2. Package a -dev only package compiled with -fPIC, so that .so
> language bindings can still link to it
Uh?
federico
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