libplatform-api-headers needs to make its headers accessible through #include <ubuntu/*.h>

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Currently. the approach is to install libplatform-api-headers headers into /usr/include/ubuntu-<version> and then create a link to it in /usr/include/ubuntu. This approach does not work, as there might be leftovers from older versions of the directory /usr/include/ubuntu, which makes creation of the links impossible. Thus breaking the headers.

There should be a different way of solving it. xnox recommended:
18:47 < xnox> tvoss_: didrocks: instead, configury / cmake /pkgconfig can point to -I/usr/include/ubuntu-sdk/1/
(...)
18:48 < xnox> tvoss_: didrocks: throught magic of gcc -isystem they can be anywhere, even in a local dir / repo /checkout / anywhere on filesystem.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

usr/include/ubuntu for example can be a symlink to the current default level of the sdk for compatability reasons / ease of building against the deefault, e.g.:

usr/include/ubuntu -> usr/include/ubuntu-<version>/ubuntu

The real headers are shipped in: usr/include/ubuntu-<version>/ubuntu/*.h

Then we need to have:
ubuntu-sdk-<version>.pc which define -I /usr/include/ubuntu-<version>
and a default
ubuntu-sdk.pc a symlink to current ubuntu-sdk-<version>.pc.

The ubuntu-sdk-default package will then be the one that ships symlinks only to the current ubuntu-sdk-<version>
This is very similar to how boost-dev, python, python3, etc... are all "dummy" default symlink only packages, depending on the "versioned" default one.

[Thomas Voß (thomas-voss)]

Having thought about this a little I think having versioned include-directories for the platform api is not a good idea. Removing it until we encounter a real use-case.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Yeah, agree. There are ways to fetch the deb unpack into directory for each ubuntu release and use those headers / link them.

Plus I don't think we have yet broken the api/abi, since libqtubuntu_sensors did not provide headers or dev package, thus one couldn't directly only link against it, or did i get it wrong?! despite shipping in public directory.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:platform-api at revision 94, scheduled for release in platform-api, milestone ubuntu-13.05

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package platform-api - 0.18.2+13.10.20130719-0ubuntu1

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platform-api (0.18.2+13.10.20130719-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

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