[Pkg-kde-extras] Mini trans to get rid of 'c2' libkexif and libkipp

[Mark Purcell]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 23:04, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> I'm tempted to ask on debian-release for an okay for a mini
> trans to get rid of 'c2'  to make backporting and kubuntu transfer
> easier.  AFAIU all that's needed is to reupload digikam* kipi-plugins
> (with a next release it rather just an upload) and gwenview,
> showimg and kimdaba.  Of course I'll check this locally first
> and ping maintainer of the other kipi apps before bothering
> debian-release.  This would help to get rid of the branches/ubuntu
> in svn too ;)

The problem you have are people who have the old library installed, and then 
at sometime in the future upgrade to the g++-4.0 version of the library.

Unfortunatly we don't have any control over where/ when people do this 
tranisition.

Ie we need to ensure that an upgrade from stable libkexif1 to unstable 
libkexif1c2 works all the time. The only difference between the two is the 
g++-4.0 ABI. Thus we can't just wait until we rebuild all dependancies, but 
we also need to ensure that any future upgrades also work :-(

If upstream changes the soname, then we are in luck as we can revert to the 
standard naming convention with a bumped soname, ie libkexif2 for example

Mark