[pkg-wpa-devel] libnl3 soname change

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:16:08 +0100, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag 15 Dezember 2011, 22:13:43 schrieb Stefan Lippers-Hollmann:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Thursday 15 December 2011, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > > > So the question would be on how to proceed to get this into unstable
> > > > without breaking to much.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > I have prepared and tested (for the non-udeb cases, see below) iw[1] and
> > wpasupplicant[2] in svn now, likewise hostapd[3] will switch to
> > libnl-3 >= 3.2 (from libnl1) after it gets available in unstable (no
> > urgency at all).
> > 
> > Something seems to be missing for the udeb handling though:
> > Package: wpasupplicant-udeb
> > [...]
> > Depends: libc6-udeb (>= 2.13), libcrypto1.0.0-udeb (>= 1.0.0),
> > libnl-3-200-udeb (>= 3.2.3), libnl-genl-3-200, busybox-udeb
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm not overly familiar with udeb specifics, but I think
> > this is
> > missing something equivalent to
> > 	DEB_DH_MAKESHLIBS_ARGS_libnl-3-200 := -V"libnl-3-200 (>=
> > $(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION))" --add-udeb=$(udeb) in libnl3's debian/rules.
> my understanding of udeb handling is also only rudimentary :-)
> 
> As I did not split the udeb libnl-genl-3 resides at the moment in libnl-3-200-
> udeb. The dependencies all have a "-udeb" in its package name, but libnl-
> genl-3-200 has not. So my guess would be, that a libnl-genl-3-200-udeb is also 
> necessary.

I'll try to look into the udeb issues but not before Thursday this week.
If anyone has time to do this before I'm more than happy. If you have
any specific questions I can answer mails even before.

Gaudenz

> 
> 
> > For iw (which is needed by crda's udev rules), it would be nice to
> > have libnl.so.3 and libnl-genl.so.3 in /lib/ (#622247: iw binary should
> > be installed in /sbin). The wpasupplicant package would also profit
> > from that (#537790), although it is haunted by openssl and zlib as
> > dependencies well.
> As libnl seems to be used by a lot of system-level programs, should only these 
> two libs move to /lib or all?
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 
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