libgig 4.0.0 qsampler 4.2.0 gigedit 1.0.0

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 21/11/16 20:42, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2016-11-21 19:43 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
>> I've contacted upstream ... let's see what's happend
> 
> Here we go ... answer from upstream ...
> -------------
> Wrong revision. This is the correct one of the actual changes you are
> interested in here:
> 
> http://svn.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=2572

I still think upstream is wrong here but whatever.

> In this revision several things happened. First of all, it added AKAI support
> to libgig. Since the AKAI source files were based on libakai, which in turn
> was and is released under LGPL, while the rest of libgig is released under GPL
> terms, I had to split those libgig parts into separate .so files, to avoid any
> license confusions.

Good so far...

> Having a 2nd .so file built though, this triggered issues with the Debian
> packaging scripts as far as I can remember. So I was forced to move the .so
> files from /usr/lib to a common subdirectory /usr/lib/libgig.

Oh no...

> And by the way, the Debian packaging scripts coming with the libgig upstream
> version build, install, and behave just fine on Debian! :-)
> 
> As you might see in the Debian packaging scripts coming with the libgig
> upstream version there are postinst and postrm rules which ensure that
> /usr/lib/libgig is added / removed to /etc/ld.so.conf.

This is probably the worst part - why on earth is libgig messing with
the ld.so config ?! It seems to me that upstream don't really know what
they're doing with this.

> So what we can do?

Since upstream have added /usr/lib/libgig to the ld.so path it seems
that they do want those libraries to be public after all.

I suggest that you:
- split libakai into a separate library package
- move both libraries into /usr/lib/<multiarch>
- bash upstream until they do this properly :)

Thanks,
James

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