Re: GNOME 1 ABI involving libpng
Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:37:33AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Since when an user should install a chrooot environment to install a
> package ? This is unacceptable.
>
> [...]
> > will be unique in being the only distro with libgdk-pixbuf3 for gnome1. The
> > soname of the library is for upstream to set, not for packagers to muddle
> > with, if one cares about compatibility.
> Anyway this will be the latest gdk-pixbuf upstream tarball for G1, then
> there is no importance to change the libraries soname.
> I can't believe you're dismissing this with such arguments.
> I'll repeat what Ryan said: it is NOT your job to invent sonames. That
In that case yes. We have started with gdk-imlib than we can continue
with gdk-pixbuf.
> is upstream's job. It is also not cool to make Debian 3.1's GNOME1
> incompatible with every other.
Who is other ?
> Can you not see this is a very important breakage, and not being able to
> install two -dev packages isn't?
Yes.
Christian
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