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Re: Draft for announcment on debian-devel-announce



On 08.09.05 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:

Hi,

> - your package depends on libkpathsea:
> 
>   libkpathsea has a new soname.  Since it was never designed as a shared
>   library (or as a proper library at all)[6], it exposes lots of its
>   internals, and in some cases the API might have changed, too (or
>   you're programs are using internals they shouldn't...).  Please
>   carefully check this, and notify us if there are problems with the new
>   version.  We do not currently plan to keep providing libkpathsea3 in
>   oldlibs, since it would require a new source package.
> 
I wouldn't write so much about the background, but just point to
Readme.Debian. I'd prefer something like:

your package build depends on libkpathsea4-dev (replacement of
libkpathsea-dev)

libkpathsea was never designed as a shared library. In teTeX 3.0 the
build environment was changed from klibtool (a web2c-specific
libtool-like hack) to libtool. As the author of web2c can't estimate
the impact of the change, he changed the soname.
Have a look at the Readme.Debin of libkpathsea4-dev for a few more
details.

H.
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