[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#620065: fixed in libimobiledevice 1.1.0-3

[Julien BLACHE]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:

> If the FDI file can be shared between both versions of the library (which
> I guess), then you should put it in a -common package and have that
> package "Replaces" the old version of libimobiledevice1 /
> libimobiledevice2 that provide this file. Of course you should add a
> dependency on the -common package.

I NACKed that because the package would be ridiculously small and this
is/has been a cause of REJECT.

Moreover the transition isn't as big as you seem to imply, there aren't
a lot of packages outside the GNOME world using libimobiledevice just
yet. This is pretty self-contained and can be handled together with
GNOME.

Finally, there's also the option of dropping the FDI file entirely,
given we plan to get rid of HAL sooner rather than later. I'm not sure
about the status of non-Linux architectures wrt libimobiledevice, so the
lack of HAL support there may be a moot point.

JB.

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