Hi,
as apackager (Chakra) who's subscribed to this mailing list I guess I
can help answering your question:
libcdio is unfortunately not ABI compatible (I guess you're interested
in ABI, not API), see http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/libcdio.html
. I can't tell you what other distribution package that depends on it,
for us the following "applications" depend on it:
clementine gst-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins mplayer
mplayer-vaapi vcdimager vlc xbmc
As a community distro which uses a semi-rolling release schedule, it's
easier to just recompile everything than to try shipping both, but I
guess for distributions with a fixed time schedule like *buntu that is
probably different. They might however know whether they can ship both
at the same time.
Best regards,
Fabian Kosmale
Am Mo 29 Jul 2013 22:21:45 CEST schrieb Matěj Laitl:
On 29. 7. 2013 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
with the GSoC projects we discovered a few dependency requirements
that will be necessary.
libcdio 0.90
This is usually fine, the distros package the libraries *for us*
(applications), not for themselves, so if we declare the dependency in advance
and communicate it well, it is okay.
However, I've heard that libcdio 0.90 has changed the API wrt 0.83. (0.83
being common is distros today) Sam/Tatjana, please answer the following
decision tree:
* Is 0.90 API backward compatible with 0.83 one? (meaning that apps written
against 0.83 compile & work fine with 0.90 without porting)
a) Yes -> everything is fine, distros can compile all apps against 0.90 in
their release after Amarok 2.9 (14.04 etc.)
b) No ->
* Can cdio 0.83 and 0.90 coexist on the same system without significant
effort?
ba) Yes -> distros can just ship both
bb) No ->
* Are other apps depending on cdio 0.83 (i.e. ffmpeg, mplayer, ...)
being ported to 0.90? Are any patches floating around?
bba) Yes -> we need to coordinate with them to release versions
depending on 0.90 at roughly the same time.
bbb) No -> we might have a problem. Are the 0.83/0.90 changes
significant?
Matěj
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