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Re: Question about skim.



On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:27:27PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote:
> Le Dimanche 13 Novembre 2005 15:40, Ming Hua a écrit :
> 
> > If you mean the backported scim 1.4.1-1 packages for sarge, I would
> > suggest you consider the C++ ABI issue.  The package 1.4.1-1 in sid
> > builds binary package libscim8, which uses the GCC 4.0 new ABI.  If you
> > backport it to sarge, the right thing to do is to build a library
> > package of different name, and have it conflict with libscim8.  If you
> > don't take care of the C++ ABI issue, I think there may be many strange
> > and hard-to-dectect error happening when users mix scim packages built
> > in different environments.
> 
> According to the instructions from www.backports.org, I have changed
> the name of the source directory from scim-1.4.1-1 to
> scim-1.4.1-backports.org.1
> After the construction of the package, I obtain  
> libscim8_1.4.1-backports.org.1_i386.deb
> Is it that you recommended  ?

No, I am talking about rename the *package* name, like from libscim8 to
libscim8c102 (altough you need to change the version as well).

> I can't see any libscim8 in sarge so I don't see 
> how I can make a conflict.

I'm talking about conflicting with libscim8 in unstable.

See the announcement in debian-devel-announce mailing list (around July
or August) for the reason why this is necessary.

Ming
2005.11.13



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