Bug#971067: RFS: libexif-gtk/0.5.0-1
On 2020-09-30 Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmaster@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 22:03, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > The transitional package makes no sense, it actually causes breakage.
> > Packages depend on libexif-gtk5 because they need a library with
> > soname libexif-gtk.so.5. The dummy package makes libexif-gtk5 0.5.0-1
> > + libexif-gtk3-5 fulfill this dependency without
> > providing libexif-gtk.so.5. Any package depending on libexif-gtk5 will need
> > to be rebuilt against libexif-gtk-dev 0.5 and will then depend
> > on libexif-gtk3-5.
> >
> Just so I understand, do we need the dummy package? I thought we did, to
> allow upgrades to work correctly.
Hello Hugh,
yes you do understand correctly, a dummy does not make sense here.
Runtime library are generally installed as a dependency, when the
depending package is rebuilt against the newer library apt will pull it
in and the old library can be autoremoved.
> I’m also targeting experimental to be safe, as I expected some breakage
> from this change.
[...]
Also library transition will need to be coordinated with Debian release,
pre-upload to sid.
cu Andreas
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