RE: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Yves Arrouye
> > Age indicates how many revisions of the library have been upwards > > compatible. If you are at revision 7 and still have all the interfaces > from> revision 6 unchanged, and 6 had the same for 5, and ... 4 for 3, > then age is> 7 - 3 = 4. > > > > I see what your saying, but dont you mean curr

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:19:13 -0800 "Yves Arrouye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > > current:revision:age > > > > age > > The difference between the newest and oldest interfaces that this > > library implements. In other words, the library

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:15:02 -0600 "Adam Majer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, if upstream is using libtool, then they should use the > libtool's specification for shared libraries. Then you just have > libtar and libtar-dev packages. > No, unstream isnt using libtool, upstream only produces st

RE: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Yves Arrouye
> e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > current:revision:age > > age > The difference between the newest and oldest interfaces that this > library implements. In other words, the library implements all the > interface numbers in the range from number current - age to current. A

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:45:52PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I must admit i am somewhat confused by all the different version numbers > for shared libraries, the libtool manual didnt help a lot either. > > e.g. The definition of the age field in -version-info > current:revision:age > > age >

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-08 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:39:52 +0900 "Junichi Uekawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it called libtar1 when it provides libtar.so-1.2 ? > > Also you only have -release 1.2 as the LDFLAGS option. > There is no soname ? How about specifying -version-info ? > > I would drop the -release, and use

Re: ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Its the first libary ive packaged, i ended up redoing the build system > to use libtool to generate the shared and static libraries. the shared > library is made using -fPIC, but im not sure about the static library. > Policy states that s

ITP: libtar - c library for manipulating tar archives

2002-01-07 Thread Glenn McGrath
The ITP is in the BTS as #128042 libtar is available from http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/libtar/ its under the original 4 clause BSD license My understanding is that it is DFSG free and conforms to Brandons proposed policy changes as outlined http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-20