[pkg-kde-talk] Re: meanwhile

[Chris Vanden Berghe]

Hi Adeodato,

Thanks for taking a look at the package!  I followed your hint and
removed the .changes files.

>   I've taken a quick look. The soname bump seems necessary since some
>   symbols are dropped. Glad to hear upstream plans on non breaking
>   things frequently in the future. :)
> 
>   As for kopete, I've tried to build it against libmeanwhile1, and it
>   fails. The max meanwhile version supported by the kopete in unstable
>   is claimed to be 0.5.0. Support for 1.0.1 exists in the development
>   version, but it doesn't seem like easily backportable to me. (So
>   thanks for contacting in advance.)
> 
>   Given that, and depending on how soon you want meanwhile 1.0.1 in
>   unstable, I'd go with:
> 
>     (a) hold your upload until we (KDE packagers) investigate the
>         viability of backporting the patch; if it's viable you can
>         upload, if it's not, we'll ask you to do (b) below (or one of us
>         will do it).
> 
>     (b) if you prefer not to wait, prepare a meanwhile0 source package
>         now, which is a copy in the one in unstable right now, but
>         produces libmeanwhile0-dev instead. Upload. After it clears up
>         NEW, you're free to upload meanwhile 1.0.1 whenever you want.
>         (If you'd rather not do this, I guess one of us can do it.)

Well, my preference is depending on how long a) would take you... if
it's only a couple of days, then I'll certainly wait until you took a
look at the patch.  If not, then I would prefer to go ahead with b).

I actually already looked quickly at b) and have 3 questions about it:
1) after changing changelog and control file to reflect the new
libmeanwhile0-dev package, can I just rename /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.(l)a
to /usr/lib/libmeanwhile0.(l)a in the libmeanwhile0-dev package?
2) the symbolic link /usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so is in both
libmeanwhile-dev (the new version) as in libmeanwhile0-dev, should I
delete it from libmeanwhile0-dev?
3) any replaces/provides required for any of the packages?

Thanks,
Chris.