Hi fellows, I am the maintainer of fam. Shortly after the start of the g++ transition I changed my package as required by the transitioning plan und uploaded. GNOME libs are recompiled and use the new libfam0c102. However, I get daily email from people complaining about removed KDE packages when trying to install GNOME. It's clear, nearly all KDE packages still depend on the old libfam0 and libfam0c102 conflicts with that. Now the problem arises: we will have 'old' KDE packages using qt2 and therefore being compiled with g++-2.95 and 'new' KDE packages using qt3 and being built with g++-3.2. All of them want a libfam but I only provide a version for g++-3.2. Ryan Murray suggested[0] building a backward compatible library. Then I would have to also build a second libfam-dev that depends on that compatibility lib. But libfam0 and libfam0c102 should conflict with each other for both having the same soname. Now I am on the horns of a dilemma, what should I do? Thanks in advance, any advice is appreciated, Joerg [0] Bug #177970 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=177970 -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
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