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  • Bug#266802: ignore that mail

    From Takuo KITAME@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 03:20:08 2004
    From: [email protected]


    Please ignore that mail which you just received that seemed destined
    (but was not) for the technical committee.

    Can you please explain why the normal package maintenance procedures
    should not apply here?

    gtkhtml1.1 has different so version with gtkhtml-1.0
    some old products require 1.0 (libgtkhtml.20), gtkhtml should not
    be upgraded. So should be different package name like 'gtkhtml1.1'
    (And 1.0/1.1 branch is obsolete.)

    From my perspective, you refused to maintain the package for years,
    and now that I need it to be maintained, and have offered to do so
    myself, you are still refusing to either maintain it or orphan it.

    Currently I maintain latest gtkhtml3.0 branch actively.
    I won't orphan it. If you need old version of gtkthml, you can maintain
    it as different package, no problems here, please do.

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    Takuo KITAME



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  • From Thomas Bushnell BSG@1:229/2 to Takuo KITAME on Fri Aug 20 03:30:09 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Takuo KITAME <[email protected]> writes:

    gtkhtml1.1 has different so version with gtkhtml-1.0
    some old products require 1.0 (libgtkhtml.20), gtkhtml should not
    be upgraded. So should be different package name like 'gtkhtml1.1'
    (And 1.0/1.1 branch is obsolete.)

    Libgtkhtml has no shared library for use (though one is installed).
    There is only the -dev package. So I'm a little confused.

    If it did, why is it not named according to the shared library package
    naming rules?

    From my perspective, you refused to maintain the package for years,
    and now that I need it to be maintained, and have offered to do so
    myself, you are still refusing to either maintain it or orphan it.

    Currently I maintain latest gtkhtml3.0 branch actively.
    I won't orphan it. If you need old version of gtkthml, you can maintain
    it as different package, no problems here, please do.

    I'm not asking you about gtkhtml3.0. I'm asking you about a totally
    different package, with totally different source. It has nothing to
    do with gtkhtml3.0.

    Thomas


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  • From [email protected]@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 04:30:09 2004
    Takuo KITAME <[email protected]> writes:

    gtkhtml1.1 has different so version with gtkhtml-1.0
    some old products require 1.0 (libgtkhtml.20), gtkhtml should not
    be upgraded. So should be different package name like 'gtkhtml1.1'
    (And 1.0/1.1 branch is obsolete.)

    Libgtkhtml has no shared library for use (though one is installed).
    There is only the -dev package. So I'm a little confused.

    -dev and shared library package are pair. built from same source.

    If it did, why is it not named according to the shared library package
    naming rules?

    I cannot understand you talking about.

    need 1.1-dev
    upgrade gtkhtml to 1.1
    -> libgtkhtml20 will be upgraded
    -> libgtkhtml20 will not exist because of different so-version.
    -> some packages will be broken

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  • From Takuo Kitame@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 05:00:06 2004
    From: [email protected]

    [email protected] writes:

    -dev and shared library package are pair. built from same source.

    There is no shared library for libgtkhtml:

    libgtkhtml-dev is development package for libgtkhtm20.


    If it did, why is it not named according to the shared library package
    naming rules?

    I cannot understand you talking about.

    need 1.1-dev
    upgrade gtkhtml to 1.1
    -> libgtkhtml20 will be upgraded
    -> libgtkhtml20 will not exist because of different so-version.
    -> some packages will be broken

    The shared library naming rules require the soname version number to
    be part of the package name. "libgtkhtml-dev" has no such version
    number.

    See Debian Policy section 8.1.

    see also 8.4.

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  • From Thomas Bushnell BSG@1:229/2 to [email protected] on Fri Aug 20 04:40:10 2004
    From: [email protected]

    [email protected] writes:

    -dev and shared library package are pair. built from same source.

    There is no shared library for libgtkhtml:

    $ apt-cache search libgtkhtml
    libgtkhtml-data - HTML rendering/editing library - data files.
    libgtkhtml-dev - HTML rendering/editing library - development files. libgtkhtml2-0 - HTML rendering/editing library - runtime files. (for GNOME2) libgtkhtml2-dev - HTML rendering/editing library - development files. for (GNOME2)
    libgtkhtml2-ruby - GtkHTML bindings for the Ruby language
    libgtkhtml20 - HTML rendering/editing library - runtime files.
    libgtkhtml3.0-4 - HTML rendering/editing library - runtime files libgtkhtml3.0-dev - HTML rendering/editing library - development files libgtkhtml3.1-11 - HTML rendering/editing library - runtime files libgtkhtml3.1-dev - HTML rendering/editing library - development files libgtkhtml3.1-7 - HTML rendering/editing library - runtime files


    Notice the lack of a "libgtkhtml" package.

    If it did, why is it not named according to the shared library package naming rules?

    I cannot understand you talking about.

    need 1.1-dev
    upgrade gtkhtml to 1.1
    -> libgtkhtml20 will be upgraded
    -> libgtkhtml20 will not exist because of different so-version.
    -> some packages will be broken

    The shared library naming rules require the soname version number to
    be part of the package name. "libgtkhtml-dev" has no such version
    number.

    See Debian Policy section 8.1.

    Thomas


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