use util-linux-ng's libblkid instead of libvolume_id

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:53:07AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Good work, the patch looks good. Few nits:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:10:57PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> +blkid_module="blkid >= 1.99"
> >
> >  I'm not sure if this is really the final blkid version number for
> >  util-linux-v2.15. I need to talk about it with Ted -- unfortunately
> >  he is probably too busy now... (The current version in e2fsprogs is 1.41
> >  and I hope this version will be freezed -- in such case we can use
> >  something better than 1.99 -- for example 1.43 or so.)
> 
> In general, people really prefer to use the package version as the
> pkg-config version. Using anything else (like the .so version) just
> means that people have to figure out a mapping back to the package
> version anyway. If you just have "blkid >= 2.15", then it's really
> simple to figure out what you need to install. Grab util-linux-v2.15
> and you're ready to go.

 Good point. Thanks.

 The library is backwardly compatible (API and ABI) so I'd like to keep
 the same SONAME ("libblkid.so.1") as in e2fsprogs. But I agree that
 it makes sense to use package version as official library version.

    Karel


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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>