Bug#1058868: [Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library
Control: tags -1 + wontfix On 12/19/23 12:43, Andrius Merkys wrote: Hi, On 2023-12-17 11:31, Yadd wrote: currently src:gemmi builds gemmi and gemmi-dev. This doesn't permit to build any software using gemmi-dev without static linking. The proposed patch adds package libgemmi1 which contains the shared library. I looked into the shared library provided by gemmi v0.6.4 (newer upstream release than in your patch). This version of gemmi builds the shared library by default. However, the produced shared library does not carry a soversion, thus according to Debian principles it is not suitable to be packaged as public shared library, alas. Thus static linking is the only option for now. Best wishes, Andrius Noted, thank you very much for your time! Cheers, Yadd
Bug#1058868: [Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library
Hi, On 2023-12-17 11:31, Yadd wrote: currently src:gemmi builds gemmi and gemmi-dev. This doesn't permit to build any software using gemmi-dev without static linking. The proposed patch adds package libgemmi1 which contains the shared library. I looked into the shared library provided by gemmi v0.6.4 (newer upstream release than in your patch). This version of gemmi builds the shared library by default. However, the produced shared library does not carry a soversion, thus according to Debian principles it is not suitable to be packaged as public shared library, alas. Thus static linking is the only option for now. Best wishes, Andrius
Bug#1058868: [Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library
Control: owner -1 ! Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi, On 2023-12-18 09:47, Yadd wrote: yas I'm going to package ovito which depends on it. If shared library isn't provided, cmake automatically uses libgemmi_cpp.a which then embed gemmi into ovito I see. OK, let me apply your patch and build the shared library for gemmi, and let's see what happens. Best wishes, Andrius
Bug#1058868: [Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Yadd, On 2023-12-17 11:31, Yadd wrote: Source: gemmi Version: 0.6.3+ds-1 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: y...@debian.org Hi, currently src:gemmi builds gemmi and gemmi-dev. This doesn't permit to build any software using gemmi-dev without static linking. The proposed patch adds package libgemmi1 which contains the shared library. I appreciate the idea and your patch, thanks for giving gemmi a look. However, I am hesitant to package gemmi shared library for Debian for now. The previous two releases had breaking API changes each. If upstream handles this properly and bumps the soversion, then this is fine, although having to undergo a transition twice a year is still quite some work. However, if the upstream does not maintain ABI stability inside the same soversion, then I would say the shared library is not yet ready for Debian. You have marked this bug as severity:important. Does this mean you need gemmi's shared library for some package? I never had the need to manually trigger the ldconfig before. The issue might be the lack of 'Section: libs' in binary package description. Thanks, Andrius
