On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:25:32 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Ondřej, > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:12:02PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > >> JSON-C upstream has renamed the library from libjson.so to > >> libjson-c.so, headers are now in /usr/include/json-c and pkg-config is > >> called json-c. > > > >> There's a compatibility layer (symlinks and libjson.so.0), but since > >> the library has so few r-deps, I feel that we might not need it to > >> make things more simple in the future. The upstream is planning to > >> drop the compatibility layer in next release anyway, so we would have > >> to do the transition in some other point in time. > > > > Not necessarily. If the ABI has not changed, there is no reason that we > > should not keep the compatibility layer in place in Debian *indefinitely*. > > > > For another example of this, see libcurl3-gnutls. > > There are some new symbols in libjson-c library and _no_ symbols in libjson > Why isn't libjson.so.0 a symlink to libjson-c.so.2 then? Cheers, Julien
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