Re: restart a git repository
Ok.
>
> Hi
> I would talk with pkg-java folks on this matter
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libcdk-java/filelist
> their package has a libcdk-java library, so they might want to change their source package to libcdk and let you use cdk again.
>
> Honestly libcdk-common sound weird when we have a libcdk-java there.
>
> So please try to solve with them first, because this kind of namespace collisions are usually bad for the end users experience
>
> (If you read under the lines you can get my personal opinion, but it has been some time since my last contribution on that team, so I won't share it as java team member)
>
> cheers,
>
> G.
>
> ------------------------------
> Il mar 3 nov 2015 18:32 CET, Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto ha scritto:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >> >Yes, in this case will be confusing. But let me
> >> >share a point of view.
> >> >
> >> >The upstream tarball is cdk too. The package
> >> >was libcdk at the beginning and then libcdk5. The 5
> >> >is about the ABI I believe. When the ABI change, it
> >> >will be changed too.
> >> >
> >> >Suggestions ?
> >> My suggestion is to call it libcdk (the source name)
> >> and build a libcdk5 library
> >>
> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352961
> >>
> >> it was removed the libcdk but just because of a SONAME bump.
> >>
> >> In my opinion the src name shouldn't change, just the library
> >> should.
> >>
> >> BTW even libcdk5 might be fine, as long as they don't change soname too
> >> often.
> >>
> >> but unfortunately cdk is misleading to me.
> >>
> >> what do you think about this?
> >>
> >> (please note: I don't have a strong opinion about this, but since we can't have
> >> cdk as source name, we should change it anyway)
> >
> >I started think about this because of this bug[0]. To
> >close it I would build the libcdk5(-dev) and libcdkw5(-dev)
> >packages and more a package with common files. Even that
> >way libcdk5 and libcdkw5 must conflict because /usr/include/cdk
> >have common files (just one is different, cdk_config.h if
> >I remember correct).
> >
> >[0] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382294
> >
> >As the upstream tarball is cdk I thought cdk-common. As
> >is not possible, the package with common files would be
> >libcdk-common ?
> >
> >
> >regards,
> >--
> >Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)
> >
>
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