Re: libgtop2 debian package (i am not the official maintainer).
Hi Sven. I'm cc's Andrew Sobala who actually produced the latest
release. I believe that binary compatibility was not broken between the
two releases, so the soname change is probably not warrented.
I'm not sure about 2) :(
To clarify Bastien's comments: I'm kinda the maintainer right now since
I wrote GNOME System Monitor and noone remains to maintain libgtop.
Unfortunately I know very little about the libgtop code and am a little
afraid to mess with it ;)
I think everyone agrees that a replacement would be nice (especially
since libgtop doesn't build on Solaris ATM). Otherwise we need someone
to step in and really maintain the code. I don't really have to time to
do it. However, right now there is no replacement available so there is
no plan to move to a different library.
Regards,
Kevin
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:29, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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
> --
> Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
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