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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:31:47 -0800
From: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: liboggflac1 soname
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:03:28AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> *AND* there is a major problem with liboggflac1.
>
> liboggflac1 did not change the soname (better check this, it might require a
> soname change, check the seekable ogg-flac support stuff).
CCing upstream on this. Josh, did 1.1.1 change interfaces in liboggflac?
If so, it needs a soname change.
> If it does, a new upload fixes it, and liboggflac1 should be generated by
> the old-flac package. If it doesn't, then what should we do? libflac4
> would be mostly useless in that case.
>
> I will switch timidity to libflac6 in unstable, so that doesn't bother me
> much, but flac is used by a lot of other stuff...
I think it's best to just transition everything to current flac; it seems at
least mostly backward-API-compatible (I haven't had to change anything so
far, only recompile), and there aren't that many packages which use it.
Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:31:47 -0800
From: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: liboggflac1 soname
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:03:28AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> *AND* there is a major problem with liboggflac1.
>
> liboggflac1 did not change the soname (better check this, it might require a
> soname change, check the seekable ogg-flac support stuff).
CCing upstream on this. Josh, did 1.1.1 change interfaces in liboggflac?
If so, it needs a soname change.
> If it does, a new upload fixes it, and liboggflac1 should be generated by
> the old-flac package. If it doesn't, then what should we do? libflac4
> would be mostly useless in that case.
>
> I will switch timidity to libflac6 in unstable, so that doesn't bother me
> much, but flac is used by a lot of other stuff...
I think it's best to just transition everything to current flac; it seems at API-compatible (I haven't had to change anything so
least mostly backward-
far, only recompile), and there aren't that many packages which use it.
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- mdz