On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:04:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > It's been my experience with this kind of ABI breakage that the only > good way out is through. If upstream has not been responsive to the > need to change the soname in response to the ABI changes, then I would > at least recommend changing the library package name to something like > libmagick6debian1 so that this can be sorted out within the Debian > package dependencies in unstable while we're waiting.
I've just gotten a response from upstream that they're going to bump the soname in the upcoming release 6.2.4-4 which is due in the next days. (And in terms of imagemagick release frequency, days usually really means days and not weeks.) Given that the breakage must have been around since the beginning of June, we can probably afford to wait these extra days before starting to pull Debian-specific stunts, I think. The cleanup work won't be any less anyway. Unfortunately, introducing the bumped soname means we'll be adding yet another transition to the pile. Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
