On 6/2/20 1:05 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 04:13:33PM +0200, Roland Plüss wrote: >> On 5/31/20 9:19 AM, Tobias Frost wrote: > (...) > >>> It seems at first glance possible that both versions can be in Debian, >>> however, the release/security team will not be happy to have both of >>> them in a stable release, IOW, having two versions can only be a >>> intermediate solution until all reverse dependencies of 1.6* have been >>> updated (by patching the respective Debian packages.) More about such >>> library transision: >>> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions >>> >> FOX-1.7 and FOX-1.6 are not compatible (well, mostly yes but in >> important things not). That said they are different libraries with >> separate include and library names (/usr/include/fox-1.6 vs >> /usr/include/fox-1.7 and the same for libraries). So technically >> applications linking against FOX-1.6 do not have to be change if FOX-1.7 >> is added on the same system (the two can coexist). But it depends if two >> library versions of the same library are accepted even if they are disjoint. > Those versions are not disjoint, the new version is just an evolution of the > old one. > > > Incompatible ABI changes is nothing special and happens all the time in Debian > (called library transistios). As I tried to explain earlier, the maintainer > duty is to resolve this by a transistion when updating the library. > > For you, hat means you need either 1.6 for code base or you need to help that > all of Debian is using 1.7. You can't have both versions in Debian… > I don't see any way for me to get other projects to update to 1.7 . FOX separates 1.7 from 1.6 so projects are not forced to upgrade if they don't want to. I can try ask the maintainer but I consider this a 0% success rate. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Plüss Roland Game Development and Game Engine Technologies https://dragondreams.ch
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