Moi Gerd! On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:14:54PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > There's only a handful of backwards-incompatible stuff, though, so it > > might well be that a symlink hack works for most packages in Debian, but > > I'd rather have a second opinion on that from someone more familiar with > > libquicktime. Unfortunately, the maintainer appears to be awol recently > > (Gerd, are you around?), and Christian stated he's not interested in > > doing any further work on the package. > > I'm still alive, but didn'd had any time to work on debian stuff > recently. I also didn't follow libquicktime developments, so I > can't comment on the issue, sorry.
Okay, glad to hear you're okay. If you don't mind, I can take care of the current libquicktime problems. In fact I've already started to work on an NMU to address the build failure on m68k. Still, if you find the time, could you please comment on the soname issue: You introduced a libquicktime.so.1 soname in the Debian diff. Christian removed that patch in his recent NMU and changed the version back to .0. What was your reason to deviate from upstream here? (I note you're also in the list of developers of the libquicktime sourceforge project, so 'deviating from upstream' might not be entirely appropriate...) Now for the problem of moved header files, because changes in API have been comparatively small, and should lead to explicit build failures instead of silent breakage, I intend to provide compatibility header files in the old location that issue a #warning and then include the respective file in the new location. This should give us an easier ride in transitioning depending apps to the new location. Any objections? Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
