Re: [DebianGIS] Re: gdal
Petter,
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:03 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Steve Halasz]
> > I've uploaded gdal 1.3.1 to mentors.debian.net (there was already a
> > 1.3.1-1 on alioth). I also committed the debian dir to alioth cvs. If
> > anyone wants to sponsor an upload to unstable that would be great.
>
> I had a look, planning to sponsor. Is the upstream source really
> containing the debian/ directory? I'm quite sure
> gdal-1.3.1.orig/DEBIAN/md5sums should not be part of the source. It
> is a generated file. What is the story with the debian/ and the
> DEBIAN/ directories?
>
> > The soname bumped from 1.7.0 to 1.9.0. I don't think that requires any
> > specific changes. Is that correct?
>
> If the soname changes (or actually, if the ABI of the package
> changes), the library packages should change name as well, to keep
> existing installations and packages working when installing the new
> library package.
I was confused. 1.9.0 is the libtool version. But the SONAME is still
libgdal.so.1. So I think everything is Ok. Would you like me to build a
new package without DEBIAN/ ?
Steve
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