severity 358279 important severity 358275 important severity 358283 important thanks On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:55:39PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Sadly, they changed the soname again. So instead of directly uploading the > new upstream version, I would like to wait for the following bugs to be > resolved, > first: > affix: #358279 > kdebluetooth: #358275 > multisync: #358283 > obexftp: needs upload of 0.19 (have to ask my sponsor :) First of all, why are there already two libopenobex packages in unstable (libopenobex -> libopenobex1, and libopenobex1.0 -> libopenobex1.0-0)? Secondly, why do the above bugs need to be fixed before uploading the new version of libopenobex? AIUI, they already build-depend only on libopenobex-1.0-0-dev, which is the older version of the library. Third, if you're changing the name of the -dev package anyway, why are you changing it to libopenobex1-dev instead of libopenobex-dev? Is the API expected to change with every soname change? > When those are in testing, I will request removal of the old binary lib > packages (libopenobex-1.0-0*) from testing and sid. Well, that answers my first question. It also means that those bugs are filed at the wrong severity: these packages currently do *not* FTBFS, because you haven't requested removal of the old library yet. > The build dependencies of those packages should then be at > libopenobex-dev (>= 1.1) That won't work. libopenobex-dev is a virtual package; you can't have a versioned (build-)dep on a virtual package. But I don't see any good reason why libopenobex-dev shouldn't be the *real* package name. So, please: - make the name of the -dev package libopenobex-dev instead of libopenobex1-dev, because sonames shouldn't be encoded in -dev package names - don't wait for the other packages to be updated before uploading the new soname, if one is needed - don't wait for the other packages to be updated before filing a removal request for the old library version. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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