slgdbm_1.6-2_i386.changes is NEW

[Alastair McKinstry]

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 10:17 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt at hetnet.nl> [2005-09-29 16:34]:
> 
> > OK, I've uploaded slgdbm 1.7, which compiles with slang 1.
> 
> Thanks.  I am in the middle of a trip now and will do a new upload of the
> package in one week or so.  At any rate, the slgdbm package is still sitting
> in the NEW queue:
> 
>     http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Should we change the name of the package to slang-gdbm?  

I recommend so, yes.

> 2) Should we provide two separate packages for each version of SLang (i.e
>    slang1-gdbm and slang2-gdbm), of should we just forget SLang1?
> 

No, I think slang-gdbm will do.
slang now uses versioned symbols (see Ulrich Dreppers recent paper on
How to Write Shared Libraries for details). Because of this there should
be no need for a slang3 _in_principle_ (in practice this has worked well
enough for e.g. glibc2 to date); there is no need to complicate our
package names to cope with an eventuality that we think may never occur
(slang3-gdbm).

As for slang1, the aim is for a complete transition to slang2 in Debian
at least for the next distribution release; slang1 will be available in
oldlibs only, and hence we need not build packages against it. Any users
needing them can recompile themselves; it should be a corner case.

Regards
Alastair