On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 19:18 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've packaged the new version of this library, the upstream author has > > > changed the SONAME, and so I've changed the name of the lib and -data > > > package, not changed the name of the -dev file because the old > > > maintainer has chosen to not version the package. > > > > > > This is my first library package, and I've some doubts, is for this that > > > I'm asking for RFC... > > > > > > Is it correct to replace the old library? This can cause some breakage > > > with old linked binaries (if any, I've seen that no package depends on > > > this library)... > > > > audacious-plugins > > libvisual-projectm > > > > You will have to at least update audacious-plugins to work before doing > > this. > > audacious-plugins is already compatible with the new version of > libprojectM... I've looked at the logs of buildd of audacious-plugins > and the projectM plugin isn't build from version 1.4.5-1, so the update > of libprojectM don't break anything, indeed I tried to compile with > libprojectM 1.2 and it builds also the projectM plugin... So I'm going > to package the new library version...
Then you cause a feature regression. *great*. > > > > about the change of SONAME by the upstream author, is it correct to > > > change the SONAME if the library is compatible with the old one? > > > > The library isn't compatible. Upstream breaks the API with every > > release, so I gave up on them. > > Best regards, > francesco
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