28.04.2016 18:31, David Mohr wrote: > Package: libiscsi2 > Version: 1.12.0-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > 1.15.0 was released a couple of months ago [1], and it would be nice to > get it added to Debian. In particular it's used for qemu's iSCSI support > which needs that version for proper handling of timeouts. > > Overall there don't seem to be any packaging changes necessary, although > I am not sure how the soname changes should be evaluated.
The problem isn't the packaging itself, the problem is... > I can share my updated packaging but the changes are so minimal that I doubt > it's worth the effort (I just removed the patches and updated the package > name to reflect the new so version). .. here: about every release, this lib breaks ABI and needs new soname. This requires recompilation of all executables linked with it. I'll try to push it to debian this time once again, but this becomes rather painful. Thanks, /mjt
