[Debian GNUstep maintainers] new packages for PDFKit and Renaissance

Hubert Chan hubert at uhoreg.ca
Sun Dec 4 00:20:45 UTC 2005


Hi everyone,

I've recompiled PDFKit and Renaissance against the new core library
packages, so if you maintain packages that depend on these libraries,
and were waiting for these to be recompiled before you tried recompiling
your own applications, you can get them now.  They are available at the
usual place:
http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/gnustep/packages/
(apt-gettable)

I've made a major change in packaging for these packages, which I'd like
to hear comments on: in order to make it so that users don't need to
install the development files if they're just using applications that
use these libraries, I've split them into lib and -dev packages.  And in
order to maintain compatibility, I've kept the old package name as a
metapackage.  So for Renaissance, I have:
- renaissance
- librenaissance0
- librenaissance0-dev
and for PDFKit, I have
- pdfkit.framework
- libpdfkt0
- libpdfkit0-dev
(PDFKit is a Framework, and Renaissance is just a library)

And I would like to propose that, for Frameworks, we follow a scheme
like that: a foo.framework that depends on the lib and -dev packages,
and then lib and -dev packages, as you would regularly do for library
packages in Debian.

Any comments on that?

(I'm also working on packaging PopplerKit, but it doesn't seem to
compile against the latest version of poppler.)

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