further coinstallability

Aurélien Gâteau agateau at kde.org
Tue Nov 26 14:04:09 UTC 2013


Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 18:19:53 Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> I had a chat here at Munich BSP with Maxy from Debian and Sput from Gentoo
> about coinstallability.
> 
> It was pointed out that dbus interfaces will clash at runtime if the
> interface has changed at all or it expects to talk to a different daemon or
> something. org.kde.kded has been renamed to org.kde.kded5 but there are
> many others and it's worth working out which will need to be renamed.
> 
> some libs with an soname of 5 in kdelibs4 keep an soname of 5 in KF5.  I
> found libkhtml.so.5 which is now libKHtml.so.5 which will clash for package
> names which are all lower case.  There may be others.

Maybe the name of the lib could be changed so that the KF5 version of KHTML 
becomes libKhtml5.so? This would be similar to what Qt5 libs do: they all 
start with "libQt5".

Aurélien


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