Fwd: RFS: Scenic 0.6.0 - Telepresence software for live performances and installations

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:23:55PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 14:41:47 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:26:12PM -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>>Hello everyone
>>>
>>>2010/8/17 Alexandre Quessy <alexandre at quessy.net>:
>>>> 2010/8/15 Alexandre Quessy <alexandre at quessy.net>:
>>>>> 2010/8/15 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>>>>>> Manpage of milhouse says "There is also a shared video library". 
>>>>>> If we expect this to be ever used, we should not ship the header 
>>>>>> files together with the binary (in scenic-utils) but instead 
>>>>>> provide libscenic (or is that the proper name? that's the folder 
>>>>>> - there seem to be no central library in it) and libscenic-dev 
>>>>>> packages.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>I think it would like to see this bug closed:
>>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584164
>>>It's been three (3) months that we're working on this, and no package 
>>>has been done.
>>>
>>> I think the shared libraries in this package are not mature enough 
>>> to be public. Therefore, it should not be packaged separately. That 
>>> means that scenic is ready to be uploaded to Debian unstable.
>>>
>>> Jonas, please list whatever needs to be done for this package to be 
>>> uploaded.
>>
>> I am not sure how to properly package non-public shared libraries.
>>
>> Please someone advice on this.
>
>really depends on how the package uses them. In general, putting them
>into /usr/lib/$package/ should do it, but it really depends on how the
>package uses them. are they used as plugins like in xine, vlc? or are
>they convenience shared libraries, like e.g. in openoffice?
>
>where do  upstream's installation scripts install them?

As quoted above, it is normal shared libraries which upstream simply 
consider immature for public use.

Personally I suspect that as such we really should treat them as normal 
public shared libraries anyway for Debian packaging (as I suspect we 
might run into similar packaging upgrade problems no matter how stable 
upstram consider the files), but I might be unaware of other acceptable 
approaches.

Upstream install the files below /usr/lib/scenic/


  - Jonas

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