This one time, at band camp, Björn Englund said:
> Sat Apr 29 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we have some problems[0] in Debian with the libdvdread 0.9.5. It seems,
> > that the UDFFindFile (and some others) are no longer exportet. Is this
> > done intenionally or accidently?
> > 
> > If intenionally, how about bumping the soname to reflect this changes?
> > If accidently, how about releasing a fixed tarball (0.9.5a or similar)?
> > 
> UDFFindFile was not (intentionally) exported in 0.9.4 either.
> Just some patch that was floating around and to my knowledge only used
> by one project(dvdbackup). I made a patch for that project to use other
> functions instead of udffindfile. This will work against the cvs version of
> libdvdread which will be 0.9.6. I sent the patch to the author of
> dvdbackup but I don't know if he received it or has applied it.

Hi there.  I am the Debian maintainer of dvdbackup.  It is my impression
that upstream dvdbackup has disappeared.  At the very least, they don't
answer my patches.

I am happy to apply the patch you sent (thanks for that, by the way) but
I do feel a bit like the soname should change when exported symbols are
dropped, even if they were accidentally exported.  If dvdbackup is
definitely the only piece of software using a symbol that was supposed
to be internal, then I agree, I'll just apply the patch and move on.
But it is difficult to be sure, and that's why I mention it.

> Are there any other projects in debian that are using UDFFindFile
> or other functions that aren't exported?

I will attempt to look in the morning and see if I can identify any
others.

> I'm going to release 0.9.6 next week (small fixes for macos/bsd and
> some extra functions to get the information needed by dvdbackup) so
> you could maybe apply the attached patch to dvdbackup in debian then?
> Does this seem ok ?

I will definitely apply the patch and get it uploaded shortly.  It is
just other unidentified software suites I am worried about.

Thanks very much,
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