On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:57:34PM +0200, Thomas Girard wrote: > Having thought about this again for a while, I'm no longer convinced we > should change the source package name. Indeed, the API was changed, but > we are not going to support both omniorb4.0 and omniorb4.1. > > omnievents, which build-depends on libomniorb4-dev and libcos4-dev, > still compiles fine with omniorb4.1, so a binNMU will suffice. > > Am I missing something?
People might depend on the API out of tree and thus applications might
break severely[0] when the package is upgraded?
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
Debian Developer
[0] I don't know how much the API changed. I guess that the standarised
CORBA API is still supposed to work as before?
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