Bug#982147: mgba: Please provide a libmgba-dev package

[Celelibi]

Le Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:50:28PM -0800, Ryan Tandy a écrit :
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:05:38PM +0100, Celelibi wrote:
> > The program I'm writing would be an IRC bot a-la twitch-plays-pokemon. I
> > don't think it would be a good candidate for inclusion in Debian as I
> > intend it to be a quick-and-dirty program for my specific needs.
> 
> OK. Sounds fun. :)
> 
> > I have no idea of an ABI compatibility policy. I'm not sure there's one
> > right now.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > However, the CMakeLists.txt already contains everything needed to
> > install headers. So I guess there's an intent toward this usage even if
> > the support (especially regarding ABI stability) isn't well thought out.
> 
> Sure. I didn't mean to suggest that the library isn't meant to be used. In
> fact, It looks like upstream's own .deb packages also include mgba-dev as
> well as libmgba. However, for publishing it in Debian, it needs to meet the
> requirements set by Debian policy for shared libraries. (And I'm not even
> saying that it doesn't, only that I don't know whether it does or not.)

I opened a github issue asking for an official stance.
https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues/2042

In the mean time, I found out how was the SONAME generated. It looks
like the ABI version is managed explicitely and used to produce a SONAME.
https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/32a8a47d/CMakeLists.txt#L880
https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/32a8a47d/version.cmake#L7

So I would expect a positive outcome soon.

Regards,
Celelibi