[Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library

[Yadd]

 > I appreciate the idea and your patch, thanks for giving gemmi a look.
 > However, I am hesitant to package gemmi shared library for Debian for
 > now. The previous two releases had breaking API changes each. If
 > upstream handles this properly and bumps the soversion, then this is
 > fine, although having to undergo a transition twice a year is still
 > quite some work. However, if the upstream does not maintain ABI
 > stability inside the same soversion, then I would say the shared
 > library is not yet ready for Debian.
 >
 > You have marked this bug as severity:important. Does this mean you
 >  need gemmi's shared library for some package?

Hi,

yas I'm going to package ovito which depends on it. If shared library 
isn't provided, cmake automatically uses libgemmi_cpp.a which then embed 
gemmi into ovito :-(

 > I never had the need to manually trigger the ldconfig before. The
 > issue might be the lack of 'Section: libs' in binary package
 > description.

Maybe it's the issue

Best regards,
Yadd