[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] libplist/libimobiledevice releases

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 11:36 +0200, Nikias Bassen wrote:
> I wanted to ask you about some changes I have in my mind for upcoming
> releases of libplist/libusbmuxd/libimobiledevice etc.

Hi Nikias, thanks for reaching out. I'm adding the maintainers list on
recipients so they can chime in if needed.

> Now as you remember a few years ago, based on Martin's suggestion, we
> changed the actual library name to libplist-2.0, libusbmuxd-2.0,
> libimobiledevice-1.0 etc.
> both the actual name and also the pkg-config name. Now I received quite some
> negative feedback back then, breaking builds etc.

I can understand the negative feedback at the time of the break, but as far as
I remember it was really needed to do that breakage once and then be aligned
with best practice in managing shared libraries, wrt. API, SONAME/SOVERSION
etc.

At least for Debian I think we're pretty happy with the current situation,
except maybe the fact that releases happen pretty rarely (and thus we might
have to backport fixes or package snapshot from time to time).

> I have some larger changes coming up, mostly it’s about changes related to
> what was summarized in this
> ticket: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/1672
> Now I will obviously have to bump major version numbers for the libs, and at
> the same time I was thinking of dropping the version suffix on the library
> name again.

So you would like to rename the library so the .so would switch from
libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6.0.0 to (say) libimobiledevice.so.7.0.0 or something
like that?


> Several distributions have been placing symlinks for pkgconfg and/or library
> names for quite some time anyway.
> What do you think about this change, would you appreciate it or would you
> rather be totally against it?

At first sight I don't think it'd be a good idea, both because of the new
breakage/transition and because that reverts to previous name (we switch in
2020 so it's not that long, especially in Debian terms :)


But I'd be interested in opinion from other people from the team here :)

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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