Re: [tetex-3.0] beta for tetex-3.0, release plan for Debian packages?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> On 26.02.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>> One major issue is that libkpathsea has a new soname, libkpathsea.so.4
>> Since many packages will want to link against libkpathsea3, we will have
>> to provide a legacy package for them.
>>
> No I guess not. We have just to find out, which packages link to
> libkpathsea3 and start to file bug reports against these packages as
> soon as libkpathsea4 has been uploaded. The packages normally just
> need a rebuild. Yes, this will take time and we shouldn't do that if
> we know, sarge is just a few weeks ahead.
This would be ideal. It the world is less ideal. It's not only a
question of timing. It might also be that programs don't work with the
new versin. Olaf Weber said that in fact binary compatibility cannot be
guaranteed between different web2c versions that alls generate
libkpathsea.so.3, because libkpathsea wasn't designed to be a shared
library at all. He's planning (or doing) a rewrite which will be named
libkp or something like that. But for the time being, we should not be
too surprised if we get problems with libkpathsea4.
>> The files can be obtained from http://people.debian.org/~frank/
>>
> I've got my CD with teTeX-beta today and I'll have a look at your
> work.
The orig.tar.gz's I use in my diff gz have been generated in the
following way:
- tetex-base: Unpack tetex-texmf-beta-... into
tetex-base-2.95.0.20040208/, repack into orig.tar.gz
- tetex-bin: unpack tar.gz, rename directory, pack again.
Regards, Frank
P.S. How was skiing? Lots of snow, I guess.
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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