Hello Dominic, et al: Some changes are happening in KinoSearch soon which will have some implications for Debian.
For anyone else reading this, a brief introduction to what KinoSearch is: KinoSearch is a loose port of the Java search engine library Apache Lucene, written in Perl and C. The archetypal application is website search, but it can be put to many different uses. Okay, so, according to upstream, the main "KinoSearch" namespace is going to become an unstable branch. There will be two forks of the current version, which will be stable branches - KinoSearch1 and KinoSearch3. This has some implications for packages which depend on these; notably, if a package currently depends on KinoSearch, the interface might change with new versions, thus breaking the application. Applications need to explicitly depend on either KinoSearch1 or KinoSearch3, and must either be patched to use the correct version or (preferably) be fixed upstream. In summary, action items: - Identify reverse dependencies of KinoSearch (apt-cache rdepends shows nothing, but some people are probably using it for their applications, and it is currently being used for MojoMojo--which is packaged but hasn't been uploaded yet) - Fix reverse dependencies to "use KinoSearch1" rather than "use KinoSearch"; we then also need to upload libkinosearch1-perl. I am willing to look into doing packaging work for both libkinosearch1-perl and libkinosearch3-perl under the Debian Perl group, unless Dominic would prefer to do so instead (since he has more experience with KinoSearch). The upstream developer (Marvin Humphrey) has been Cc'd to this mail, so he can help us coordinate these changes to minimize the impact to Debian. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d1b732a71003171457o6baea2f3k98592f7125313...@mail.gmail.com
