getting openni2 into Debian

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Nov 21 20:32:20 UTC 2013



On 11/21/2013 04:41 AM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> * IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> [2013-11-21 10:37]:
>> it's always best to follow upstream as closely as possible (as long as
>> they make sane assumptions :-)), esp. in picky areas like SONAMEing.
>>
>> if your package has not been in debian yet (which i think is true),
>> you should get rid of any hacks like renaming SONAME, as long as this
>> is still easily possible.
> 
> We are not renaming the SONAME but adding one in the first place ;).
> 
> Cheers Jochen

Including a description of the issue in the patch would be quite helpful.  It
looks like the upstream version has a SONAME since it ends in .so.2.  To add a
desciption just add this at the top of the patch file:

Description: renaming file to match our SONAME
 Upstream doesn't set SONAM blah blah blah...

.hc



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