Wrong prefix in KPeople libraries

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Thu Mar 12 10:52:13 UTC 2015


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:33 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> 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?

No objections from Kubuntu.


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