Control: severity -1 wishlist Hello, thanks for the suggestion.
What is the software that would like to use this? Is it (or would it eventually be) in Debian?
What is libmgba's ABI policy? Currently we use libmgba as a "private" library; only the frontends built from the same source link it, with tight version constraints. I guess shipping a -dev package would require making the library package public, and versioning it appropriately. It looks like libmgba's SONAME is derived from its version (i.e. "libmgba.so.0.8") and does not reflect libtool-style versioning? Does mgba's author commit to ABI compatibility within the scope of a release branch?
(If it is attached to the release version that way, I'd have thought it's more conventional to name it e.g. "libmgba-0.8.so.0", but that's upstream's decision of course...)
In short, it's easy to ship some headers and a .so symlink, but I'm somewhat more hesitant about making libmgba into a public library, when it's not obvious to me that it's meant to be used that way, so I'd appreciate any links to where I can read about upstream's intent.
thanks, Ryan
