Re: Merging the source packages for argyll and libicc2
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am introducing Color Management in Ubuntu and therefore I have updated the
> Argyll package. There I have discovered, that there are two source Debian
> packages, argyll and libicc which are based on the same source tarball. I
> want to merge these two packages to make maintenance easier.
>
> Problem is that the version number used for libicc is the API/ABI version
> number 2.12 which is much higher than the 1.3.3 of the upstream tarball. Ho
> should I proceed to make the resulting package being well accepted by
> Debian? Should I introduce an epoch?
Hmmm, to prevent some possible confusion, my Argyll-1.3.3 package is
loosely based on Roland's Argyll-1.3.0. Roland used to autotool
argyll, which I didn't, I just motivated Graeme Gill to fixup Jam a
bit, so it would be workable.
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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