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Bug#857211: ITA: libupnp -- Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, version 1.6 (shared libraries)



Hi,

On 22/03/17 08:18, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> Cc += libupnp@packages.qa.debian.org
> 
> On 03/20/2017 11:24 AM, James Cowgill wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 23:10:02 +0100 Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?=
>> <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> wrote:
>>> Control: owner -1 !
>>> Control: retitle -1 "ITA: libupnp -- Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, version 1.6 (shared libraries)"
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote:
>>>> Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
>>>> package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
>>>
>>> If somebody wants to help maintaining that would be great. But even
>>> without help I should be able to bring and keep the package in shape.
>>
>> I only just saw this, but just FYI I have already uploaded libupnp 1.8
>> as a separate source package mainly for mediatomb. They should both be
>> co-installable.
> 
> How ready is libupnp 1.8? Does it make sense to migrate the packages
> depending on 1.6 to 1.8 and get rid of 1.6?

libupnp 1.8 is API breaking and they renamed all the libraries and
headers so all packages would need porting to use it. I don't really
know how much work would be involved though. 1.6 is still going to be
maintained for some years I expect.

James

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