Bug#1112095: recastnavigation: removes symbol without SONAME bump

[bret curtis]

Hey gang!

Thank you for the replies.

We've (OpenMW) been contributing upstream but development seems to have
stopped. We're still hopeful but with 26 open PRs, infrequent updates and
lack of communication we're considering doing a fork of the project.

I'll add the Breaks dependency and update the package names accordingly.

We can still debate if it's worth having in Debian or as you said, just use
the embedded recastnavigation.

Cheers,
Bret



On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM Travis Wrightsman <travis at wrightsman.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for working on this Bret!
>
> For what it's worth, I am planning on reverting Godot back to its
> embedded recastnavigation copy because this upstream recommends using it
> this way [0] (which is supported by Debian policy [1]) and they
> basically told me in the linked upstream bug report that they don't make
> any ABI promises.
>
> Personally, it doesn't seem worth it to fight upstream by providing a
> shared library for recast in Debian? On the other hand, they don't seem
> to release that often, so maybe it isn't that much of a pain.
>
> Cheers,
> Travis
>
> [0]
> https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation/blob/main/Docs/_2_BuildingAndIntegrating.md#building--integrating
> [1]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies
>