Re: epoch bump for babl and gegl libraries

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 12:29:13 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:21:37AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > The GNOME team intend to add an epoch to the babl and gegl libraries,
>
> Question: what about changing the package name instead, and doing a
> transition to a new library package name?  It would be perfect to catch
> the occasion of a soname bump, but even then, we are only talking about
> less than 10 packages to rebuild for a changed library package name.

I am not aware of any upstream plans for a SONAME bump.

Even if there was one planned, libgegl-common is not versioned, so it
has the same problem as the -dev packages.

> This wouldn't solve the problem of the -dev packages having the epoch in
> the 3rd party repository

Or libgegl-common, which unlike the -dev packages will be installed by
all end users of the library.

    smcv