[Flac-dev] liboggflac1 soname

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Sat Jan 8 20:31:47 PST 2005


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.

-- 
 - mdz


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