Re: What happened to libgtkhtml19 in unstable?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:59:20 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This might cause some quite ugly problems with the dependencies between
> libraries.
In the general case, yes. However, gnumeric does not link against any
libraries that link against libgal, so the problem does not arise there.
> > With gnumeric, I stepped out of that race by linking against gal
> > statically, which I've found to be a very satisfactory workaround.
>
> Could you revert this workaround at least for the package that will make
> it into stable?
Quite frankly, I don't see any advantage to reverting.
> BTW: Now that Evolution-1.0 is released libgal seems to change less
> frequently - no new so-name since more than one month.
That's not a guarantee at all. As a libgal developer explained to me:
"GAL is not meant to be api stable. It role is to provide a place
to share code and to develop new interfaces. When things
stabilize they move down into gnome or gtk.".
Ray
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