Hi Paul, 2011/12/29 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: > The following files are in violation of policy section 8.2. Please move > them to a different package and then drop the Breaks on all the old > versions of libogremain.
I don't doubt that you are right, but there are some complications and I hope that you will help me to solve this in a nice way. AFAIK the OGRE package in Debian has worked like this since originally packaged in 2004, and it follows closely upstream's way of doing things. In particular the plugins.cfg thing never made much sense to me (and it's usually a user application thing, not a system-wide one), compared to how other similar 3D engines handle these matters. I never changed that for tradition, and because OGRE was never very focused on the way that things work in places like Debian, compared to other projects (they value more the development on consoles, ad-hoc installations and things like that). Apart from that, I'm not completely sure (because I am not an expert in OGRE world), but I don't think that the plugins can work with different major versions of the library (1.6 vs 1.7, or the upcoming 1.8). If I'm right, the proposed solution would be technically correct for the Debian packaging tools side of things, but it wouldn't work when trying to use it. Think of Firefox plugins, for example, they usually fail to work with different upstream versions, and usually there's no provision in Debian to have several versions of Firefox plugins installed. (Unlike browser extensions, I think that most/all projects using OGRE use several plugins at the same time, so there's no much difference with libOgreTerrain and the plugins, so maybe the separation is for historic reasons). So for several versions of the library to be usable at the same time, I think that the solution would be to make these versioned (e.g. installed in /lib/OGRE-1.7.3/Plugin_Whatever.so). That's the way that OpenSceneGraph (that I co-maintain) do it. # dpkg -L libopenscenegraph80 | grep -i plugins | head -n 5 /usr/lib/osgPlugins-3.0.1 /usr/lib/osgPlugins-3.0.1/osgdb_cfg.so /usr/lib/osgPlugins-3.0.1/osgdb_rot.so /usr/lib/osgPlugins-3.0.1/osgdb_pnm.so /usr/lib/osgPlugins-3.0.1/osgdb_curl.so What do you think? Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
