[Pkg-kde-extras] Re: kipi/kexif libstdc++ transition

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:10, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 18:48, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 17:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > Hi, I saw your comment in the libkexif changelog about working
> > > together so I thought I'd contact you.  
> 
> Excellent!  Very keen to have ubuntu and debian working off the same code 
> base, with coordinated effort rather than divergent effort.
> 
> > > There is a new c++ transition 
> > > coming up for Debian and Kubuntu which means renaming libraries to use
> > > a c2a suffix.
> > > Kubuntu originally changed libkexif to libkexifc2 but this actually
> > > wasn't necessary as libkexif and libkipi depend on kdelibs and qt
> > > which both get changed, forcing a new version of any depending
> > > libraries.  So I recommend for the upcoming transition that they get
> > > changed back to using no suffix to save the inconvenience that brings.
> >
> > Removing c2 will make backporting easy again.  Mark, Paul,
> > (and ftp-master;)  I can/will do it if no one has objections.
> 
> Well the current situation is like this:
> hoary -> libkexif0, libkexif0-dev
> breezy -> libkexif1, libkexif1-dev
> dapper -> libkexif1-dev, libkexif1c2
> Sarge -> libkexif1, libkexif1-dev
> Etch/ Sid -> libkexif1-dev, libkexif1c2
> 
> I suppose if we can come up with a schema which doesn't conflict with any of 
> the above then it should be good to go.  But not that libkexif1 is not an 
> option as it has already been used by breezy & sarge, even though that is 
> what the correct solution should be.

libkexif1 is the one ;)  Sid/Etch & Dapper does not count because there are
in flux.  So we eventually we will have libexif1 everywhere.  (Ditto for
libkipi0c2 -> libkipi0)

Achim
P.S. With the next API aka soname change I also ponder if
this will be libXXX<soname+1>-dev as suggested in the library
pkging guide or libXXX-dev as favored by most(?) DDs.
> 
> Mark
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