Hi,<br><p>libODE (libode0-dev, libode0c2) is a free, industrial quality
library for simulating articulated rigid body dynamics - for example
ground vehicles, legged creatures, and moving objects in VR
environments. It is fast, flexible, robust and platform independent,
with advanced joints, contact with friction, and built-in collision
detection. It is used by many games, as the trends are to provide more
realistic behaviour of the engines every time. While version 0.5 has
been in the archive for a while, most of the newer games demand version
0.8. </p>
<p>There is an ABI breakage between de 0.5 and the 0.8 release of
libode. In fact, there are numerous reports of incompatibilities
between versions in the forums, and the upstream developers apparently
don't care at all about SONAMEs ( <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/379791"><img src="http://wiki.debian.org/htdocs/rightsidebar/img/moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11"> http://bugs.debian.org/379791</a>
). Upstream are using the version number as a SONAME, so it seems they
have no clue on what they're doing. Even though 0.5 and 0.8 are clearly
not ABI-compatible (segfault), the major number of the SONAME seems to
be the same. </p>
Trying to upgrade to 0.8, and not being fully aware of the problem. we
uploaded a newer version of libode0c2, based on the 0.8 version of ode.
It seems to have been a bad idea, since programs depending on it seem
to break. Thus, we wanted to ask what would be the best way to face
this transition. We should also contact the maintainers of the packages
that depend on this to try to make the transition as easy as possible
for everyone.<br><br>Packages that depend on libode0c2: python-pyode, xmoto, python-soya, python-pyepl, and indirectly: <br><br><p>$apt-cache --recurse rdepends libode0c2 libode0c2 Reverse Depends: </p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>xmoto python-pyode libode0-dev xmoto python-soya python-pyode python-pyepl libode0-dev </p>
</li></ul>
<p>python-pyepl Reverse Depends: python-soya Reverse Depends: </p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>slune python-soya-doc balazar </p>
</li></ul>
<p>balazar Reverse Depends: python-soya-doc Reverse Depends: </p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>python-soya </p>
</li></ul>
<p>slune Reverse Depends: </p>
<ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>python-soya junior-games-gl </p>
</li></ul>
<p>junior-games-gl Reverse Depends: </p><br>How is the proper way to handle this?<br><br>Greetings and thanks,<br>Miry<br><br>Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list<br><br><span></span>