Comments regarding timbl_6.4.4-2_i386.changes

[Ko van der Sloot]

On 05/29/2013 11:23 AM, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> 2013/5/27 Ko van der Sloot <Ko.vanderSloot at uvt.nl>:
>> Well, the previous version was called libtimbl3-dev.
>> There were a lot of changes in the software, so incrementing to 4 seemed
>> a good plan.
> Is API stable enough, or does it change every new upstream version?
> This is basically the major reason of using a versioned -dev package.

Well, the API is still a moving target. (we are in a process of moving
generic
stuff from libtimbl to libticcutils)
So I prefer to keep the versioned -dev for now.
But it is good to keep this in mind when the API stabilizes
(hopefully in the near future)

cheers
Ko vd Sloot

>> Changing the name will affect the dependencies of upcoming releases of 5
>> or 6 other packages too.
>> So if it is wise to change, it is better to do it now, I suppose.
> Reverse dependencies would have to be transitioned anyway, so it
> should be better to do it once and for all, assuming the API is
> "stable".
>
> Cheers,
> Luca