Bug#585782: new version of enet, change in protocol at version 1.3.0

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at 43-1.org
Fri Jul 23 19:42:07 UTC 2010


Hi,

Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> writes:

> What were your plans for the two branches? Were you thinking of
> maintaining both until everyone moves away from 1.2? In that case we
> can add version 1.3.0 and update 1.2.1 to 1.2.2.

I hoped that nobody would start using 1.3.x until Squeeze was released
and then get everything to switch for Squeeze+1.  Do you plan to include
packages depending on 1.3.x in Squeeze?

Without having looked at the 1.3 in detail yet, there seems to be at
least the problem that both 1.2 and 1.3 provide libenet.so.  In case we
need to maintain both at the same time, the -dev packages would not be
co-installable.  It might also reuse one of the sonames that Debian used
before we included "debian" in the soname.

With regards to 1.2.2: At least the entry "now uses packed attribute for
protocol structures on platforms with strange alignment rules" sounds
useful, but it seems to also introduce ABI and a small API change (see
"Caveats" in the changelog).

Regards,
Ansgar





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