Re: libffm adoption/change of soname
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 23:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:19 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > Greetings,
> >> >
> >> > I'm adopting libffm, and noticed that it has the erroneous soname of
> >> > libffm.so.0. Since the library interface has changed on just about
> >> > every upgrade, it should really be libffm.so.0.28.
> >> >
> >> > On the other hand, the interface has only changed once since it was made
> >> > a Debian package, so libffm.so.1 sort of makes sense. But this is
> >> > incompatible with upstream's name.
> >> >
> >> > So I'd like to leave the package name as libffm1(-dev), but change the
> >> > soname. Packages won't need to change dependencies, but binaries built
> >> > against it will need to relink since libffm.so.0 will no longer exist.
> >> > As far as I know, the only package affected is illuminator, which I
> >> > maintain (hence my adoption, as it was headed for the trash bin).
> >> >
> >> > Any comments/objections?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > -Adam
> >>
> >> Why not rename the package and soname to libffm0.28(-dev) so they make
> >> sense and match up again?
> >
> > You know, that makes sense. If I'm going to change the soname, so
> > packages have to be rebuilt anyway, I really should change the package
> > name with it (policy may even require it). (That should have been
> > obvious to me...)
> >
> > Since it's not likely that people will want to install multiple versions
> > of the -dev package, I'll just make that libffm-dev.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Adam
>
> Don't forget to change the name on every _API_ change. Sounds like the
> lib is till highly under developement so I wouldn't be surprised if
> the API changes slightly with releases as well.
Right, used to be under heavy development. But they haven't had a
release since 1998. :-)
-Adam
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