libc-client2007 transition

[James Westby]

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:40 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:02:27AM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> >James Westby ha scritto:
> >> At the end of last year there was a small transition done to move
> >> from libc-client2007b to libc-client2007d.
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> >> However, Debian then reverted this change (with an epoch), as they 
> >> didn't want the SONAME bump in lenny.
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> >I'm not sure Debian reverted the upload only to avoid SONAME bump, 
> >there was probably a problem in the upstream code itself, but I'm not 
> >sure about this. Maybe Jonas could shed some light.
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> There was no problems with upstream code, it was only to avoid SONAME 
> bump.
> 
> Upstream has no shared library, that is a Debian hack. But historically 
> upstream license required (by my interpretation at least) the upstream 
> version to be clearly visible in derived code, which lead me to the 
> current unusual packaging routine of bumping SONAME with each new 
> upstream release.
> 
> In other words: There is no technical reason for SONAME to be changed so 
> frequently. It was wrong of me to bump the SONAME of a library in deep 
> freeze, but when the "cat was out of the bag" it was suggested to change 
> epoch as a simplest workaround.

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the information.

Do you think that Luca's suggestion to follow you in Debian and pull 
your revert of the SONAME, and then "un-transition" the packages that
we had rebuilt for the new SONAME is a good one?

Once lenny is released then we can perform the transition at the same
time as you.

Thanks,

James