[pkg-uWSGI-devel] Bug#833055: Packaging of mongoclient replacement library: mongocxx

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, Giulio Paci wrote:
> https://jira.mongodb.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/CXX-923
> 
> They finally released mongocxx 3.0.x, that they currently recommend for new
> development. On the other hand, my use case for this package (Orion context

That's correct for "new development", but since it's not API compatible (I
guess) it's not an option for uwsgi.

> > (and possibly have
> > mongo-cxx-driver-legacy provide mongodb-dev as a metapackage as well),
> 
> What is the purpouse of this metapackage?

The original package was providing the headers for the same C++ driver
that was bundled as part of uwsgi from what I understood.

I guess Apollon suggested to re-create it as an empty package depending
on libmongoclient-dev so that the transition is smooth.

> > as at least one package (uwsgi) could make use of it.
> 
> Maybe the new driver could be an alternative for this package?

Not if the API are different...

> Currently I have no time at all (and will likely not have time for the next
> few months). So feel free to work on this package as you want/need.
> I am open to co-maintainance or even to orphan this package, if you want to
> adopt it.

Ok. Apollon, do you want to take up on this offer to handle the move to
unstable?

Cheers,
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