Re: Bug#669565: RFS: gammaray/1.1.0-1 [ITP] -- Tool for examining the internals of Qt application
On 2012-08-10, Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org> wrote:
> On 10.08.2012 16:47, Jakub Adam wrote:
>>> debian/patches/gammaray-probe-versioned-soname.patch:
>>>
>>> Why do you set a SONAME for gammaray_probe?
>>> When gammaray changes the ABI custom plugins will break anyway
>>> since you can't install different versions of gammaray.
>>
>> When SONAME is not set, lintian produces these warnings and error:
>>
>> W: gammaray: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink usr/lib/gammaray_probe.so usr/lib/gammaray_probe.so
>> W: gammaray: shlib-without-versioned-soname usr/lib/gammaray_probe.so gammaray_probe.so
>> E: gammaray: postinst-must-call-ldconfig usr/lib/gammaray_probe.so
>>
>> So the right solution is to override the warnings and add ldconfig call into
>> postinst script by hand?
>
> Maybe a better solution would be to set the SONAME to the upstream version number.
> That way it's explicit that plugins need to be recompiled when the upstream version
> changes.
whattabout just not offer -dev stuff for gammaray until there is
actually a need for it?
/Sune
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