[Pkg-ime-devel] Dealing with opencc

[aron@debian.org (Aron Xu)]

Dear team,

I'm now starting to drop dependencies of opencc from as many as
possible packages to avoid it, and plan to stick to 0.4.3 for a much
longer time in unstable/testing, but will maintain 1.0.x and future
series in experimental.

Reason is that upstream never maintain ABI compatibility properly, and
close the report silently when the issue is discovered and reported.
We cannot affort to diverge by bumping SOVERSION every time. Anything
depending on libopencc should declare a very tight dependency to the
version it builds with exactly, to avoid breakage.

Thanks,
Aron