On 5/31/20 9:19 AM, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 06:55:42PM +0200, Roland Plüss wrote: >> On 5/30/20 4:45 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: >>> I see those options: >>> - talk to the fox-1.6 maintainer about updating the package to 1.7. >>> (though I see that they generally stick to released versions and 1.7.* seems >>> to be only development snapshots; a question to ask: is the 1.7 ABI stable already?) >>> - make the features optional that requires 1.7 >>> - use only 1.6 features (listed for completeness, as you said you can't) > There is another option I've forgot to mention: > - Talk to the maintainers of 1.6 and work together with them to package > 1.7. Maybe Florian is happy to get you as (co-)maintainer the 1.7 > package, so you could offer that. > > It seems at first glance possible that both versions can be in Debian, > however, the release/security team will not be happy to have both of > them in a stable release, IOW, having two versions can only be a > intermediate solution until all reverse dependencies of 1.6* have been > updated (by patching the respective Debian packages.) More about such > library transision: > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > > If you want to follow this route, your next step would be now to contact > the fox1.6 maintainer by filing a wishlist bug against src:fox1.6, asking > to package the version you need, explaining the situation and maybe (== > if you want) tell them that you would commit helping to offset the extra > work caused by maintaining the development snapshot. > > * dak spits out those r-deps: > ace: libfox-1.6-dev > gogglesmm: libfox-1.6-dev > libgwenhywfar: libfox-1.6-dev > pcsc-cyberjack: libfox-1.6-dev > sumo: libfox-1.6-dev > xfe: libfox-1.6-dev (>= 1.6.45) > FOX-1.7 and FOX-1.6 are not compatible (well, mostly yes but in important things not). That said they are different libraries with separate include and library names (/usr/include/fox-1.6 vs /usr/include/fox-1.7 and the same for libraries). So technically applications linking against FOX-1.6 do not have to be change if FOX-1.7 is added on the same system (the two can coexist). But it depends if two library versions of the same library are accepted even if they are disjoint. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Plüss Roland Game Development and Game Engine Technologies https://dragondreams.ch
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