rtaudio package

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-06-20 18:02 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 17:00 +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> 2016-06-18 12:23 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 22:25 +0200, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> > > can safely upload package now? Soname was bumped.
>> >
>> > I can upload this for you if you want, though there are some
>> > issues.
>> >
>> > librtaudio5 is already taken and in use in jessie. To reuse this
>> > number, the ABI must be identical (which I have not checked). I'm
>> > still not sure I can believe what I'm reading here:
>> >
>> >  librtaudio4    | 4.0.10~ds0-2 | wheezy  | amd64
>> >  librtaudio4v5  | 4.1.1~ds0-4  | stretch | amd64
>> >  librtaudio4v5  | 4.1.1~ds0-4  | sid     | amd64
>> >  librtaudio5    | 4.1.1~ds0-2  | jessie  | amd64
>
> I still don't like this. Although it probably won't effect most people,
> it will break reverse dependencies if you try to do a partial upgrade
> from jessie to stretch.
>
> I think you either need to do a local soname change (not 6!), or rename
> the package to something like librtaudio5a and have it Conflicts the
> old package name.
>
> That corresponds to the second renaming case on this page (there is no
> SONAME change when compared to jessie):
> https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices

Ok I renamed package to librtaudio5a and add Conflicts for librtaudio5.
Now  get package-name-doesnt-match-sonames librtaudio5 ... lintian error.

renaming librtaudio.so.5.0.0 to librtaudio.so.5a.0.0 should be enough?

regards

mira