Bug#604846: vte: Update to 0.27.2

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Wed Dec 8 22:53:47 UTC 2010


Hi,

On 01/12/10 20:01, Michael Terry wrote:
> OK, my understanding from the discussion with upstream is that 0.27 is
> the unstable lead-up to a stable 0.28.  For 0.28, the library and gir
> names will remain as they are in 0.27 (libvte.so.9/libvte2_90.so.9 and
> Vte-0.0.gir/Vte-2.90.gir).
>
> Eventually vte will reach 1.0 and those gtk3 names will change to the
> much more reasonable names libvte-3.0.so and Vte-3.0.gir.  If they still
> care about gtk2 at that point, the names for those will be libvte.so.9
> (presumably) and Vte-1.0.gir.
>
> Since 0.28 will be the version for GNOME3 and upstream could not give an
> ETA for 1.0, we're stuck with these names for a little while.
>
> So, then I think my packaging gets the major names right:
> gir1.0-vte-0.0
> gir1.0-vte-2.90
> libvte9
> libvte-2.90-9
> libvte-dev
> libvte-2.90-dev

Yes, but don't build a gir for the gtk+2 version.

> So the only change in terms of names from my original patch is to drop
> the libvte-bin package?

I think so.

Cheers,
Emilio






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