Hi Mirco, Sorry, I didn't see this bug report.
On Thu, 03 Jan, 2008 at 02:42:00PM +0100, Mirco Bauer wrote: > severity 458844 grave > reassign 458844 libflickrnet2.1.5-cil > retitle 458844 libflickrnet2.1.5-cil: broke ABI (breaking other applications > like f-spot) and violates the Debian CLI Policy 3.2.1 > found 458844 25277-3 > thanks > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:12 +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gnome2/f-spot $ ls > > Accounts.xml photos.db photos.db.okay > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.gnome2/f-spot $ f-spot > > Initializing Mono.Addins > > Assembly not found: FlickrNet, Version=2.1.5.33467, Culture=neutral, > > PublicKeyToken=2491df59efa5d132 > > WARNING: [FSpot.Core,0.4.0.3457] Could not load some add-in assemblies: The > > classes in the module cannot be loaded. > > *sigh* this is an ABI breakage of FlickrNet, thus reassinging the bug > report to it. > > The f-spot export extensions are there but not usable as the library is > not usable (caused by the ABI breakage) > > libflickrnet2.1.5-cil 25277-2: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gacutil -l FlickrNet|grep Version > FlickrNet, Version=2.1.5.33467, Culture=neutral, > PublicKeyToken=2491df59efa5d132 > ^^^^^ > libflickrnet2.1.5-cil 25277-3: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gacutil -l FlickrNet|grep Version > FlickrNet, Version=2.1.5.1158, Culture=neutral, > PublicKeyToken=2491df59efa5d132 > ^^^^ Oops, sorry about that. > libflickrnet2.1.5-cil broke the ABI by changing the assembly version. > It uses the asterisk (*) sign in the assembly version, which means a > hash is used for the last part, any bit of the source code that changes > will change the assembly version -> ABI breakage. > For this reason the Debian CLI Policy ยง3.2.1 [0] requires to remove such > characters from the assembly version. > > To fix the ABI breakage, I would suggest to discard the current assembly > version number (2.1.5.1158) by removing the last number part and replace > it with 0, like the policy says. To bring ABI compatibility back (like > for f-spot) install a GAC policy file [1] and map the last used version: > 2.1.5.33467 to 2.1.5.0. This makes future applications and current > applications happy. Check dh_cligacpolicy (part of cli-common-dev), that > tool can generate such policy files and manages them for you. As > reference how that tool is used see the mono-addins (older versions) [2] > or log4net [3] source package. Thanks, I will look at these packages and prepare a new version. > > [0] > http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-gac-naming-versioning > [1] > http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-gac-policy-files > [2] > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/mono-addins/tags/0.3~svn.r90520-1/debian/?rev=0&sc=0 > [3] > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/log4net/trunk/debian/?rev=0&sc=0 > > PSS: I would like to invite you to pkg-cli-libs [0], it's an open > project / repository for maintaining CLI library packages in debian. > Every DD has write access to it. We have also the IRC channel > #debian-mono on OFTC. Okay, I shall move the package to pkg-cli-libs svn repo. Thanks Varun -- Varun Hiremath Undergraduate Student, Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India --------------------------------------- Homepage : http://varun.travisbsd.org
