On 16-01-2025 16:17, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:Since an OS should not only serve the developers of the OS, but also expect simple users having installed "other" software, existing compatibility links should always be retained, since they are there because they are part of the expected linkage scheme (although it would clearly be advantageous if the software could just link to the generic lib*.so file, but most libraries are nowadays not version-downward compatible...).We cannot maintain and sustain everything forever. Once something is dead upstream it will sooner or later very likely die in OpenIndiana too. In this particular case you are just lucky because libjpeg6-turbo (which could be considered as a compatibility package) is still included in OI just because it is (currently) cheap to keep it there and also because the upstream libjpeg-turbo still maintains the API version 6. Once either changes then the version 6 of the API will be removed from OI too. Please note that both V6 and V7 of the libjpeg API are unused by OpenIndiana.
My usual work scheme is to take whatever is left in OI for older packages (but then I expect it to be complete), and copy it to /usr/local/ if it's obsoleted in OI. That way we still have zombies like 'cheese' still working on the new OI versions, and we have a lot of large more important packages for us that no one would dare to recompile any time soon... So obsolete as you like, but keep still existing packages or replacements complete as long as they stay active. Of course, slight oversights like the current one happen, that's not a problem as long as they can quickly be corrected. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMKASF-SAT https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology https://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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