[Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep libraries soname bump

[Gürkan Sengün]

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Adeodato Simó wrote:
>>> (BTW, the GNUstep transition is also tied to the
>>> libpoppler3->libpoppler4 transition via popplerkit.framework.)
>> No, it is not, at least not as far as my SQL-fu can see. libpopplerkit0
>> does not depend in any of the renamed libraries in the GNUstep transition, 
>> so it's free to migrate at will.
> 
> You are right that it doesn't depend on the GNUstep core libraries,
> but it should.  See
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/07/msg00068.html for some
> explanation.  (Yes, these are bugs, IMVHO RC as per Policy 8.6.)
> 
>> Or do you know more about this than the Packages.gz files do? :-)
> 
> The other packages in this situation are gnustep-netclasses and
> pantomime1.2.  If they don't get rebuilt, their reverse dependencies
> (gnumail.app, lusernet.app, talksoup.app, viewpdf.app, etc.) will fail
> miserably.

likewise with renaissance (zipper.app) and gorm.app (and gnustep-dl2)

yours,
guerkan