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

[Julien BLACHE]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> 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.

The multiarch requirements aren't relevant here, as the file is
installed in /etc and is identical regardless of the architecture the
package is built for. So the overlap will be handled by dpkg. That is,
if the wiki page is accurate.

> 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.

Can you get a statement from them on that? Thanks.

> 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...

Those uploads will be needed anyway, as I think libimobiledevice2
is/will not be API-compatible with libimobiledevice1. So, could be a
moot point.

>> 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.

That's a question for Julien (the other one - why yes, we're everywhere).

JB.

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