Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-10-15 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:30:42 Jean Bréfort wrote: > Dmitry, libspreadsheet.so is a symbolic link. > # ls -l /usr/lib/libspreadsheet* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3316928 sept. 1 17:45 > /usr/lib/libspreadsheet-1.12.6.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 sept. 1 17:45 /usr/lib/libspreadsheet.so -> > l

Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-10-14 Thread Jean Bréfort
Dmitry, libspreadsheet.so is a symbolic link. # ls -l /usr/lib/libspreadsheet* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3316928 sept. 1 17:45 /usr/lib/libspreadsheet-1.12.6.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 sept. 1 17:45 /usr/lib/libspreadsheet.so -> libspreadsheet-1.12.6.so What's wrong with that? Jean -- T

Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-10-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:49:42 Morten Welinder wrote: > other distributions ship development packages, so it would make sense > for Debian to do that too. Some developers argue whether it is appropriate to package libraries with unstable A[BP]I... > Note, that we have never promised A[BP]I stabi

Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-10-14 Thread Morten Welinder
Dmitry, other distributions ship development packages, so it would make sense for Debian to do that too. There are two target groups of users: plugin writers and those with their own command line tools. The latter group might be empty. Note, that we have never promised A[BP]I stability and have

Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-10-14 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Morten, Andreas, At the moment in Debian we ship "libspreadsheet" library together with gnumeric as private binary. We have new bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723903 suggesting to expose "libspreadsheet" to operating system and to provide it (properly) as libr

Bug#723903: Gnumeric lacks development files package

2013-09-20 Thread Albert Graef
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.12.6-2 The Gnumeric package in Debian lacks the development files needed for out-of-tree plugin development. Specifically, the following include and pkg-config files are needed if you want to compile a Gnumeric plugin which is not included in the Gnumeric source itself