Re: libgtop2 debian package (i am not the official maintainer).

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

Sven,

You said that you contacted upstream, but Martin hasn't been upstream
for libgtop for about 2 years. Contact either Kevin Vandersloot (or
myself in very very last resort) for problems about libgtop.

libgtop is a piece of crap that needs to die, and that nobody wants to
take care of.

Cheers

On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:22, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> libgtop2 is currently broken in debian unstable, and Noèl Köthe is too
> busy to fix it right now. I maintain packages that depend on libgtop2
> and also use others that depend on libgtop2. All these packages have
> become unusable since libgtop2 broke.
> 
> I am then trying to prepare a non-maintainer-upload of libgtop2, and
> have noticed the following problems :
> 
>   1) The soname of libgtop2 did change in 2.0.2 from 2.0.1 (from
>   libgtop-2.0.so.0 to libgtop-2.0.so.1). But no mention of this is made
>   in the ChangeLog. So, the question is this soname change warranted,
>   because the binary incompatibility did change, or spurious and should
>   be reverted.
> 
>   2) I noticed that the libgtop2 libraries are built, not against the
>   libraries currentyl building, but against the installed ones, which is
>   severly broken, as libgtop-2.0.so.1.0.1 is linked to the older
>   libgtop_common-2.0.so.0 and libgtop_sysdeps-2.0.so.0, which naturally
>   don't work once the package is installed.
> 
> This second point, i have had a quick look but i was not able to quickly
> fix the build system so this doesn't happen, maybe you could provide me
> some insight or hint on how to fix this (or even a patch or new
> release ?).
> 
> Hope you don't mind my comments and questions, and again, i am not the
> debian maintainer of this package, and Noel may well know these things
> already.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>