working towards Subsurface 2.0

[Dirk Hohndel]

Roland Dreier <roland.dreier at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 12:57 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> - are there any contributors to Fedora / OpenSUSE / Debian / Ubuntu /
>>>   Gentoo or any other distribution here who'd be willing to shepherd
>>>   Subsurface packages into those?
>
>> I can help on this one for Fedora for both libdivecomputer and
>> subsurface. I can also help to get someone into the packager group if
>> you're interested in (co)maintaining it.
>> But I can already say that the reviewer will complain about the presence
>> of the -static sub-package containing the .la file.
>
> Likewise I'm a Debian maintainer but I think the static copy of
> libdivecomputer is a hurdle to getting subsurface into the real Debian
> archive.
>
> How close are we to the stable libdivecomputer API?

I am wondering - assuming you are the package maintainer of BOTH
libdivecomputer and subsurface - shouldn't you be able to ensure that at
any point of time there are always two matching versions of the packages
installed?

I cannot remember if the dependencies allow you to require an exact
version of another package or if they only allow to specify a minimum
version... because if you can require libdivecomputer-0.1-x and
subsurface-2.0-x (or right now 1.2.x) to always be a matched pair, then
I guess you can use shared libraries, no?

/D