On Sun, December 31, 2006 9:09, Jordà Polo said: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:42:20AM +0100, Tilman Koschnick wrote: >> I have discussed this issue with my sponsor in the past, and we have >> agreed that the proper split is not worth the hassle at the moment. >> There >> are no packages apart from gpsd itself depending on the library, and the >> SONAME has changed regularly and will probably change again soon. > > Actually, one such package entered Debian a few days ago[1], so it > is already a real problem. Probably not RC at the moment since this > package will not make it into etch, but still, it should be fixed as > soon as possible. > > 1. http://packages.debian.org/gaia > >> As soon as a package linking to libgps enters the archive, I will make >> the >> split and coordinate with the respective maintainers.
Ah, good to know! Currently, I am travelling abroad for a couple of weeks and have no access to my repository. I'll look into it once I am back - there is a new version of gpsd to be packaged as well... Cheers, Til
