On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:49:42 Morten Welinder wrote:
> other distributions ship development packages, so it would make sense
> for Debian to do that too.
Some developers argue whether it is appropriate to package libraries
with unstable A[BP]I...
> Note, that we have never promised A[BP]I stability and have certainly
> broken it almost every release. Yet I don't recall ever having gotten a
> complaint over that. It appears that users with their own plugins are
> happy to recompile when they upgrade.
Hopefully when libspreadsheet will be packaged it will be easier to
see when recompilation (transition) is needed...
> I didn't quite catch what the soname problem was. Can you elaborate?
Since I'm not a library developer please excuse me if my explanation
is not clear enough: *.so files are meant to be a linkage files
(symbolic links) but not a library files. Usually library file is
named somewhat libfoo-*.so.N where "N" is soname. Then *.so file is
merely a symlink to the library but not itself a library. In that
regards "libspreadsheet" differ from "libgoffice" and "libgsf".
I hope the following link may provide some useful information:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
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Dmitry Smirnov
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