Re: Binary-only upload of libsdl-erlang on mips

["Sergei Golovan" <sgolovan@nes.ru>]

On 5/30/07, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Sergei,

> This points to a sourceful bug in either libsdl-erlang or in erlang.
> Rebuilding libsdl-erlang on mips in unstable does *not* fix the problem that
> all of the libsdl-erlang binaries in *stable* were built against an earlier
> erlang, and have a dependency on erlang-base (>= 1:11.b.1-1) |
> erlang-base-hipe (>= 1:11.b.1-1).  If erlang versions are not
> backwards-compatible, then there needs to be proper handling of such
> transitions in the erlang packages -- preferably by providing erlang
> packages (virtual or real) with an "abiname" that packages such as
> libsdl-erlang can depend on in the manner of shared libraries.

Thanks for the idea about virtual package. We'll adopt it in the next
erlang package version.

> There seems to already be some measure of support for this in the form of
> 'erlang-depends', so once erlang itself is fixed, binNMUs for libsdl-erlang
> are certainly an option; but I'm not going to schedule a binNMU that
> effectively paints over this issue.

OK. I got it.

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Sergei Golovan