Bug#321241: libkpathsea4-dev: Needs a README.Debian

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 04.08.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> libkpathsea4 or rather libkpathsea4-dev should have a README.Debian
>> that explains the reasons for the soname change
>> 
> Why? Did Thomas/Olaf give a exact reason, why they did that? Do
> really anybody has to explain, why the soname was changed?

Actually, when I wrote "reasons for the soname change" what I really
meant was "reason for changing the name of the -dev library by adding
the soname number".  

And yes, Olaf gave a reason; I think it was even on this list, or on
tetex-pretest:  Because there is no defined API and the library was
never designed to be used as a DLL, he wanted to be sure, although he
couldn't tell at which places compatibility was or might be broken.
There'll be a properly designed libkpse "soon".

I wanted to dig out that statement and put it into README.Debian.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer