BIC in libkonq

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On antradienis 03 Rugpjūtis 2010 22:52:36 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> libkonq is
> an edge case, it is used in quite some other modules, on the other side,
> due to the anything that depends on *workspace* must require the exact
> version anyway, making an exception for libkonq doesn't make that much
> sense to me.

Yes, probably most of libraries are local to kdebase-workspace. But if they 
are local, they should not install headers to the world. But they all do 
(why?). A few libraries in kdebase-workspace are definitely public, for 
example libsolidcontrol (afaik, it broke BC in 4.5 without bumping soname) and 
libtaskmanager [1] (it broke ABI in 4.4 in comparison with 4.3).

The recent example on top of all that workspace stuff: libsolidinterfaces was 
moved to kdelibs 4.4 with completely reworked API and without any soname bump. 
Looks like KDE violates soname concept for the sake of what? Because a single 
change in CMakeLists.txt is too hard? Or SOVERSION 4 is such a good looking 
number that there is a strict policy not to touch it? I'm sorry but I don't 
know how else I could explain this.

Anyway, at this point I see this as completely lost battle. I guess we will 
need to start adding distro patches (sad) for bumping sonames of those public 
libraries because you do not seem to have much interest in following well 
defined practises in the unix world which are supported by 
libc/ldconfig/ld.so.conf.

[1] 
$ apt-cache rdepends libsolidcontrol4
libsolidcontrol4
Reverse Depends:
  knm-runtime
  plasma-widget-networkmanagement
  network-manager-kde
  knm-runtime
  ktorrent
  kdelirc
  plasma-widgets-workspace
  plasma-desktop
  plasma-dataengines-workspace
  kdebase-workspace-dev
  kdebase-workspace-bin
  kbluetooth
$ apt-cache rdepends libtaskmanager4a
libtaskmanager4a
Reverse Depends:
  plasma-widget-smooth-tasks
  plasma-widget-ktorrent
  plasma-widget-lancelot
  plasma-desktop
  plasma-dataengines-workspace
  kdebase-workspace-dev
$ apt-cache rdepends libkonq5
libkonq5
Reverse Depends:
  konq-plugins
  kmess
  kdiff3
  ark
  plasma-widget-folderview
  libkonq5-dev
  konqueror
  kfind
  kdepasswd
  kdebase-apps
  dolphin

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modestas at vainius.eu>
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