[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#697036: libtelepathy-logger2 0.6.0-1 bumps soname and breaks gnome-shell: should really be libtelepathy-logger3

[Matteo Settenvini]

Package: libtelepathy-logger2
Version: 0.6.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

as you can see below, libtelepathy-logger2 0.6.0-1 bumps the soname of
the library from 2 to 3. Thus, gnome-shell 3.6.2-1 breaks, and you
can't log in anymore via the graphical user interface (gdm3 is also
affected, it hangs indefinitely. Probably because it waits for
gnome-shell to come up?).

There's no clean way to downgrade only this, as gnome-shell depends on
gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 >= 0.4.0-2, and the first version available
is 0.6.0-1 which pulls in libtelepathy-logger2 0.6.0-1 again.

Besides, the soname bump also breaks other apps such as empathy.

Please plan a transition for the soname bump, or create a newer
libtelepathy-logger2 package for the .2 soname, and a
libtelepathy-logger3 for the .3 soname.

Thanks!
Matteo


# dpkg -L libtelepathy-logger2
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libtelepathy-logger2
/usr/share/doc/libtelepathy-logger2/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libtelepathy-logger2/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libtelepathy-logger2/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtelepathy-logger.so.3.2.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtelepathy-logger.so.3


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (800, 'experimental'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libtelepathy-logger2 depends on:
ii  libc6               2.16-0experimental1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.100-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.34.3-1
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.15.1-1
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.20.1-1
ii  libxml2             2.9.0+dfsg1-4
ii  multiarch-support   2.16-0experimental1

libtelepathy-logger2 recommends no packages.

libtelepathy-logger2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information