[Kde-imaging] libkexiv2: breaks backward compatitiliby? WAS: extragear/libs/libkexiv2

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/5/8, Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it>:
>
> Alle martedì 8 maggio 2007, Angelo Naselli ha scritto:
> > Alle martedì 8 maggio 2007, Achim Bohnet ha scritto:
> > > On Tuesday, 8. May 2007, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > > Alle martedì 8 maggio 2007, Achim Bohnet ha scritto:
> > > > > On Sunday, 6. May 2007, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > > > > SVN commit 661885 by anaselli:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Release 0.1.4
> > > > > > - fix libtools version-info
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi, Angelo,
> > > > >
> > > > > looks like it get fixed in the wrong way ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > When I build 0.1.4 pkgs and install them, digikam io slaves only
> give errors like
> > > > >
> > > > > digikam: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create
> io-slave:
> > > > > klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_digikamthumbnail'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reinstalling 0.1.1 and digikam works again.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone else tried to run an app build with 0.1.1
> > > > > to run with 0.1.4?
> > > > hmmm are this comment the reason?
> > > > (Depreciate: used internaly by digiKam core.)
> > > >
> > > > Gilles you changed a lot of methods from protected to private,
> > > > I guess if that was the cause
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > mhmm,  looking into .xsession-error shows:
> > >
> > > usr/lib/kde3/kio_digikamthumbnail.so: undefined symbol:
> KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::getImageOrientation()
> > >
> > > if only this method is missing.  I would suggest to
> > > just keep this method instead (make as depreacated)
> > > and delay delay API backward break to a future release ;)
> > Anyway it's a mess, since libkexiv2 is not used by digikam only.
> >
> > Suggestion?
> Ok so it seems we missed the compatibility between 0.1.1 and 0.1.2
> but we realized it after (e.g. > 0.1.3) that means all the releases
> we've done till now are "broken". I suggest to change version info
> to 2:1:0 anyway.
> WDYT?
>
>
> Angelo
>

You want mean something like libkeviv2 0.1.4 using a version info like 2:1:0
?

There is no relation between the package release id and the version info of
library ?

Gilles
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