Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-10 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
John Stamp wrote: > If that sounds sensible to you, I'll call it settled for now and leave > the bug open as a reminder. I'd say that sounds about right. If it's not asking too much, gently poke upstream to make the SONAME 0 while the lib is unusable. Perhaps for the next release. If they take

Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-10 Thread John Stamp
OK. I spoke with upstream. They are aware of the SONAME version problem and appear interested in fixing it. And while they don't currently consider libLastFmTools and the newly-introduced libMoose to be useful for other packages, they do plan to make them useful in the future. Given that, I

Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-08 Thread John Stamp
On Saturday 08 December 2007, Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Just to be extra polite I'd ask upstream if they want people to be > able to use this lib. Perhaps they haven't really thought about it! > :-) This could be enough nudging to make them either bump the > SONAME for the next release or inc

Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-08 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
John Stamp wrote: > The library isn't very useful for other applications; it's for lastfm > and its bundled plugins: /usr/lib/lastfm/services/*. Also, upstream > kept the same SONAME version for 1.4.0, but it's incompatible. So > no, I wouldn't call that stable. Just to be extra polite I'd as

Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-08 Thread John Stamp
On Saturday 08 December 2007, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > The package currently places libLastFmTools.so.1 into /usr/lib. Is > this library useful for other packages, even if currently no one > links to it? Is it stable enough for that? If it isn't, perhaps > upstream's SONAME's wrong and you coul

Bug#455073: lastfm: libraries location

2007-12-08 Thread Leo costela Antunes
Package: lastfm Version: 1:1.3.2.14.dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist The package currently places libLastFmTools.so.1 into /usr/lib. Is this library useful for other packages, even if currently no one links to it? Is it stable enough for that? If it isn't, perhaps upstream's SONAME's wrong and you could