liboxygenhelper?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 09.08.09 19:18:45, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Sunday 09 August 2009 17:36:13 you wrote:
> > On 09.08.09 21:04:50, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > > On 2009-08-09, Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:
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> > > > Op Sunday 09 August 2009 07:08 schreef u:
> > > >> On 2009-08-08, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> > > >> > Any comments or objections?
> > > >>
> > > >> I object to anything that involves abi-unstable libraies with public
> > > >> headers in kdelibs.
> > > >>
> > > >> /Sune
> > > >
> > > > Why? It's similar to what akonadi does:
> > > > install a libakonadiprivate.so and install headers like
> > > > itempayloadinternals_p.h. The naming should provide enough hints to
> > > > developers to not use it blindly.
> > >
> > > akonadi is not part of kdelibs
> > > so far, I've been told that akonadiprivate is only named private "to
> > > scare off people who don't know what they are doing", not because it
> > > isn't keeping a stable abi
> > > and I do expect akonadiprivate to use a proper abi stability policy
> > > (change major version of soname on BIC changes between releases)
> > 
> > So I guess your problem with library that doesn't keep BC in kdelibs is
> > that you might have to change kdelibs name on each release? If thats the
> > case, this is basically a "packagers-only" issue and could easily be
> > solved by simply splitting out this single lib from kdelibs and
> > providing a separate binary package for it. I'm assuming that
> > liboxygenhelper plays by the rules and changes its SONAME when breaking
> > BC.
> 
> On the other hand it would be nice to have a solution that doesn't add more 
> work for downstream packagers if we don't have to.

Well, I'm not a packaging expert, but I do have some small-scale
experience in that area with Debian and in my experience extracting a
couple of files into a separate binary package is about as much work as
creating a whole new binary+source packages for a new module.

Andreas

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