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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> I NACKed that because the package would be ridiculously small and this
> is/has been a cause of REJECT.

Well with multiarch shortly ahead of us it's more and more important for
lib* packages to have only the library files and not any sort of support
file.

So there will be other similar cases and I doubt the ftpmasters will
reject them. Their concerns should not forbid us to do the right thing
in terms of library packaging.

> 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.

Well, we can't bin-nmu in experimental so it means fake source upload in
experimental with increased build-dep just to be able to provide updated
binaries of all packages using libimobiledevice1...

That doesn't seem good.

> 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.

Several of the reverse build-dependencies of libimobiledevice-dev use it
with an architecture restriction [linux-any] but not all of them. I don't
know how important that FDI file is in the grand scheme of the library.

Cheers,
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