[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep library transition

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:01:27PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:39:34 -0800, Steve Langasek said:

> > Just for reference, can you explain what it is that prevents the
> > library versions from being co-installable?  I would expect a
> > mass-rebuild anyway, but it sends up warning flags for me to hear that
> > partial upgrades won't work. :)

> I just double checked -- even though it might be possible to have both
> old and new versions of libgnustep-base and libgnustep-gui, the old
> version of gnustep-back cannot be installed at the same time as the new
> gnustep-make, since gnustep-back tries to put files in
> /usr/lib/GNUstep/.../Fonts and .../Documentation, which are now symlinks
> in gnustep-make, and so they conflict.  Since libgnustep-gui is pretty
> much useless without gnustep-back, I don't think there's any point to
> trying to fix the dependencies to make the libraries co-installable.

Fair enough.

> >> At least two of the packages that I know of are involved in the other
> >> transitions: pdfkit.framework (C++), and cynthiune.app (C++, flac).
> >> The updated pdfkit.framework for libstdc++6 is already in testing, as
> >> is the updated cynthiune.app for libstdc++6 and libflac7.  I don't
> >> know of any other packages that are involved in any of the other
> >> transitions.

> > Sounds good.

> I checked all the GNUstep packages (or at least all the packages that
> "apt-cache search gnustep" found), and AFAICT, there are no other
> packages that are part of any other current library transitions.  Since
> pdfkit.framework and cynthiune.app are already in testing, does this
> mean we can go forward with uploading our new packages to sid?

Yes, please go ahead and upload to sid.

Thanks,
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