Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> (07/07/2012): > This is a request to start a small transition for wheezy. Please > don't shoot me. *BANG* Alternative plan below. Other release team members may have different views. > The current leptonlib packaging ships liblept.so.3 in a package with > the same name (libleptonica) as the package shipping liblept.so.1 in > squeeze. That is problematic for a few reasons: > > 1. Upgrading libleptonica causes liblept.so.1 to be removed, > breaking leptonica-progs and tesseract-ocr from squeeze, but this > dependency is not declared. Add Breaks: accordingly. > 2. tesseract-ocr from wheezy requires liblept.so.3, but > libleptonica's shlibs file doesn't create an appropriate > dependency for that. So a versioned dependency on libleptonica > was hardcoded in 3.02.01-4, which will only make for trouble in > future library transitions. Optionally fix shlibs accordingly. If I read it right, we have the following Depends: tesseract-ocr → libtesseract3 → libleptonica (>= 1.69~) So the versioning against libleptonica is already there, and we wouldn't gain anything in rebuilding src:tesseract after that. Correct? > 3. There is no reason not to allow liblept.so.1 and liblept.so.3 to > be installed at the same time for a smoother upgrade, but using > the same package name prevents that (policy §8.1). I think we can live with that for wheezy. Proper library versioning can happen after that, which is going to need a fix for tesseract-ocr at that time (killing the hardcoded Depends: on libleptonica). [If you still have time to kill, please point involved maintainers to the relevant bits of the Debian Policy for the next release cycle.] Mraw, KiBi.
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