Wrong prefix in KPeople libraries

David Faure faure at kde.org
Thu Mar 12 08:33:00 UTC 2015


On Wednesday 11 March 2015 16:31:22 Aleix Pol wrote:
> I've just been pointed out by kubuntu packagers that we're missing the
> KF5 prefix (i.e. the library is called libKPeople.so instead of
> libKF5People.so). This patch [1] addresses that but it's obviously a
> BIC.
> 
> I see these options:
> 
> We also install symbolic links so that things compiled to the old
> library name still work.
> We ship a new tarball with the fix and overlook the BIC problem.
> We overlook the problem completely and leave it as is.

I didn't make the tarballs public yet - so technically we could still fix that 
as part of 5.8.0.

Would any packager object on the grounds that they already published their 
packages?

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5



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