[Pkg-silc-devel] Please binNMU pidgin against libsilc-dev (>= 1.1.9-1)

[Luk Claes]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> (11/07/2009):
>> Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>>> Hi mighty members of the release team,
>>>
>>> Could you please schedule a binNMU of pidgin against
>>> libsilc-dev (>= 1.1.9-1) in order to update its binary deps?
>> Can you please give a bit more context as it doesn't seem obvious why
>> this would be needed?
> 
> From silc-toolkit_1.1.9-1/changelog:
> |    * libsilc and libsilcclient are now shipped in two different binary packages
> |      in order to respect their SONAMEs.  The -dev package depends on both and
> |      has been renamed to libsilc-dev.
> 
> libpurple0 (from src:pidgin) depends on one of them. I guess a rebuild
> would update that dependency; given that silc_client_* symbols come from
> the libsilcclient-1.1.3 binary, a dependency against that one is going
> to be added.

The strange thing is that the soname of libsilc did not change, though
as there are only a small number of reverse dependencies, I've scheduled
binNMUs for them.

Cheers

Luk