Re: Help with upgrading libflickrnet
Hi Varun,
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:51 -0400
Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org> wrote:
>
> They are not compatible:
>
> -----------
> $$ mono-api-check -2 2.1.5/usr/lib/cli/flickrnet-2.1.5/FlickrNet.dll
> 2.2/usr/lib/cli/flickrnet-2.2/FlickrNet.dll CLI API Check
> Assembly Name: FlickrNet
> Missing Interfaces: 8
> Additional Interfaces: 63
>
> The two assemblies you compared are NOT API compatible!
> You must use a new package name!
>
> The new assembly has additional interfaces. You must raise
> the minimal version in clilibs!
>
> The assembly versions do NOT MATCH!
> If they are API compatible you MUST generate and install a GAC policy
> file! -----------
>
mono-api-check might produce false-positives, to make sure there are
missing interface that actually cause an ABI breakage use the
ilcontrast tool from the mono-tools-gui package.
>
> Apart from these changes I also added Conflicts/Replaces the older
> version 2.1.5 mainly because the symlink
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/flickrnet.pc exists in both the packages and dpkg
> complains while upgrading.
Using Replaces here is good but do _not_ use Conflicts. The point of
versioning the packages exposing an ABI compatibility would be useless
if 2 different ABIs could not be installed at the same time. The GAC
explicitly allows this though! The Replaces will make sure the
pkg-config file will be replaced with the newer one. We know that this
is a bit hacky but we have no other solution yet defined in the Debian
CLI Policy. We plan to add libfoo-cil-dev packages (without any
version) like the C libs have which would fix the hacky Replaces-only
solution.
>
> So, what next? Upload to experimental and file bugs to update all
> rdeps? Should we also provide some transition package 2.1.5-cil
> depending on 2.2-cil?
Such transition package is useless because the runtime will refuse to
load the assembly with a different assembly version than the one that
was linked at compile time (except GAC policy files are used but only
if the ABI is compatible).
>
> I have committed my changes to pkg-cli-libs svn and new package in
> available on my homepage [1].
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> -Varun
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~varun/
>
>
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