[Pkg-xfce-devel] libthunar package name

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Wed Mar 8 08:50:20 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:38 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
>         
>         *if* they bump the soname between each release, right ?
> 
> the soname is usually bumped rigth before a release if necessary in
> thunar's case. 
> So whenever Benedikt bumps vfs and thunarx soname we make a new
> package name
> by increasing the last digit.

Ok, I missed that Benedikt confirmed that.

> *If* he bumps one but not the other it is time to split libvfs into
> vfs and thunarx.
> Until then they can stay like this. 

Mhmh, yes, so I'd rather stay with libthunar-vfs-1, so I juste have to
create a new binary package when necessary, and not change name another
rime.

>  
> 
>         If current xfdesktop svn is using thunarx but not thunarvfs
>         i'd prefer
>         splitting now so we don't have to do it when we start
>         packaging 4.4
>         prereleases
> 
>  
> It uses both vfs and x for the file launchers on desktop.

Ok so it won't be a reason to split.

By the way, even with soname bumping we need the shlibs file in order to
ensure versionned dependancy, if between different *package* versions we
change some things.

-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez




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