[Pkg-phototools-devel] RFS: libexif-gtk/0.4.0-1

[Hugh McMaster]

Hi Herbert,

Thank you for your review.  :)

On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:12 PM, Herbert Fortes wrote:
> Other guy helped me about a lib that I take care. He alerted
> me to an ABI change in another lib that is a Build-Depends on
> the package I maintain. The upstream did not take that into
> account an did not bump the SONAME for the new version. So I
> probably would miss that.
>
> I read the ChangeLog file, but I am asking: did you
> check if the new version has some ABI change problem?

Yes, I checked whether the SONAME needed to change. It doesn't.

Both version 0.3.5 and version 0.4.0 have a SONAME of libexif-gtk.so.5, 
so the ABI is still 5.

Library versioning has package version 0.3.5 as 5.0.0 and package 
version 0.4.0 as 5.1.0.

> Also:
>
>  - put your name in debian/copyright

Done.

> - the .symbols file is new but the version in it is old. Is
>   not good to build with the new version?

I asked about this on #debian-mentors. As there is no change
between 0.3.5 and 0.4.0 for the symbols file, we could technically
use 0.3.5 as the minimum version. However, due to the upstream 
change from 0.3.5 to 0.4.0, and the switch from shlibs to symbols,
the consensus was to use the higher version 0.4.0.

So I've made that change too.

> I think is a good idea to upload the package to experimental first.
Okay. There a few reverse build dependencies, so to be safe, I've
packaged for experimental.

I've uploaded a new version to Debian Mentors:
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libe/libexif-gtk/libexif-gtk_0.4.0-1.dsc

Kind regards,

Hugh