[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#620065: fixed in libimobiledevice 1.1.0-3

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> Le Monday 18 April 2011 à 21:27 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > First of all, I wanted to suggest to drop the Conflicts and just keep the
> > Replaces. The Replaces is enough, the only problem is that the FDI file
> > will be lost if libimobiledevice2 is removed while some application
> > still use libimobiledevice1 (the other cases are correctly handled by dpkg
> > whatever the order of installation of the packages).
> Ok, It sounds reasonable. I'll try to update it this week-end, but feel
> free to NMU it if it's an emergency.

This WE should be fine, thanks.

> > > Those uploads will be needed anyway, as I think libimobiledevice2
> > > is/will not be API-compatible with libimobiledevice1. So, could be a
> > > moot point.
> > 
> > Julien (Lavergne), do you know if this is the case?
> For now, only new API was added, but as they declared the API not
> stable, we can't be sure what is going to change. To be safe, I prefer
> to assume that the API can change, that's why it should stay in
> experimental until 1.2.0 is released.

The stable release of "gvfs" depends on this new API apparently due
to this new feature:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636132

Do you know when upstream plans to release 1.2.0?

Cheers,
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