Re: building jack packages for sarge

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > > Is it possible to build a package of jack 0.100.0 that would satisfy
> > > dependancies of other pacakges in sarge that depend on jack 0.99.0 /
> > > libjack0.80.0?
> > Hi,
> > Seems that I am the last one on this list :)
> > The short answer: No
> > Longer explication: The change of the package name of jack has been
> > introduced because the jack ABI seems to have changed, so you have to
> > recompile all the packages against the new ABI if they should work.
> > In practice this depends on the calls that have been changed in libjack,
> > and the ones used by the different programs, so it might work.
> 
> So, in practice, we could lie to the package system and say that our
> libjack package built from jack 0.100.0 is libjack0.80.0 and only
> actually use applications that we know are ok with the new ABI?

I think what you would really want to do is to backport
jack, and rebuild all apps.

In my understanding, API itself is mostly unchanged, so most 
packages should build fine.


regards,
	junichi