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

Achim Bohnet ach at mpe.mpg.de
Wed May 9 16:27:03 CEST 2007


On Wednesday, 9. May 2007, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2007/5/9, Achim Bohnet <ach at mpe.mpg.de>:
> >
> > On Wednesday, 9. May 2007, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > Alle mercoledì 9 maggio 2007, Colin Guthrie ha scritto:
> > > > Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > > > Alle martedì 8 maggio 2007, Colin Guthrie ha scritto:
> > > > >> Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > > > >>> Col can you test the binary compatibility in cooker? I mean IIRC
> > there
> > > > >>> was 0.1.2 in it now you upgraded to 0.1.4 digikam should start
> > correctly.
> > > > >> Yeah I tested it prior to committing/submitting it and it seems to
> > be
> > > > >> fine, so I guess you are right in that it was the 0.1.1 -> 0.1.2that
> > > > >> broke things.  The version I updated in cooker was indeed 0.1.2.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Didn't try to do anything complex in dk but nothing jumped out at
> > me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Col
> > > > >>
> > > > > Col could you please test this one against 0.1.2?
> > > > > http://www.linux.it/~anaselli/kipi-plugins/libkexiv2-0.1.5.tar.bz2
> > > >
> > > > It creates a different automatic provides:
> > > >
> > > > The older one (0.1.4) generates:
> > > > libkexiv2.so.0()(64bit)
> > > >
> > > > and the 0.1.5 generates a provide of:
> > > > libkexiv2.so.1()(64bit)
> > >
> > > >
> > > > So indeed the major of the library has changed.
> > > hmm, not the major, but the revision.
> > > > I can bump the major and it should in theory co-install with the older
> > > > version, but I'll still get conflicts on the file:
> > > > /usr/lib64/libkexiv2.la
> > > > (is this even needed? - I've had good success with just deleting them
> > in
> > > > the past, but I've also been stung with some KDE apps needing them!)
> > > >
> > > > Regardless it will mean we can rebuild the dependant apps and
> > everything
> > > > will eventually work. Is this the desired effect?
> > > Well it should have been done after liblexiv2 0.1.1 (e.g. for 0.1.2).
> > > But if i understood well the rule
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Versioning
> > > 2:1:1 should mean revision is 2, age is 1
> > > so it should be back compatible with libkexiv (2-1=1) 1:X:X e.g. >
> > libkexiv2 0.1.2
> > > I would have expected digikam working with the new library.
> > >
> > > I'm comfused... and a bit tired to investigate :/
> >
> > Hi Angelo,
> >
> > thx for libkexiv2 0.1.5  with libkexiv2.so.1.   Now digikam can still use
> > 0.1.1
> > with libkexiv2.so.0.
> >
> > I've tried rebuilding digikam 0.9.1 with likexiv2 0.1.5 and this also
> > works fine.
> >
> > At least in kubuntu only digikam and digikamimageplugins depend on
> > libkexiv2
> > and those two are merged in 0.9.1.  PUh, that's easy ;)
> 
> 
> Achim, digiKam & DigikamImagePluguins have been merged with 0.9.2 release,
> not 0.9.1 (:=)))

Everything I write has to be read with 90 % fuzzy mode turned on ;)

Achim
> 
> Gilles
> 



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