packaging jack...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:18:06AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 22:07:56 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 21:01:21 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 03:25:45PM +0200, torbenh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>we (upstream) will make sure they are binary compatible.
>>>>>all symbols added since jack-0.116 are mandated to be weak.
>>>>>if there are any issues with binary compatibility these are bugs.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like a promise of a stable API.
>>>>
>>>> How about then bumping the API from 0 to 1?
>>>
>>> if you mean the SONAME, then you would require rebuilding all 
>>> applications for no reason. There is absolutely no need for this.
>>
>> Then packages could depend unversioned on libjack1, instead of 
>> versioned on libjack0 >= 0.116.0.
>
>This would be terribly confusing, as it indicates that the SONAME has 
>been bumped which is not the case.

I did not mean that Debian should bump SONAME, but would it not make 
sense for _upstream_ to do so when they claim their library ABI to now 
be stable?


>> That would make it possible to offer alternative jackd 
>> implementations:
>>
>> Alternative implementations simply should not provide a *-dev 
>> package, to enforce build-depending against the "main" jackd 
>> implementation (for now that means jakcd1, might change to a 
>> different one in the future).
>>
>> I suspect that is the simplest approach to multiple jack 
>> implementations in Debian.
>
>The issue with the various flavors of the *-dev package is the least 
>problem here. Moreover, it is neither necessary nor sufficient. Quite 
>the contrary, I think that we need to allow multiple *-dev packages, 
>because some implementation might provide some extra, optional feature 
>that is only declared in an implementation specific header.

Isn't that a contradiction to the upstream claim of library ABI being 
stable since version 0.116.0, or am I missing something?


  - Jonas

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