checking "external" lib versions

[Kohei Yoshida]

On 05/21/2013 08:10 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 05:40:38PM -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>>> Trying to build libreoffice 4.0.3.3 with liborcus 0.5.1 and that
>>> unfortunately
>>> fails with:
>> You can't build the 4.0 branch with 0.5.1. You need to use 0.3.0.
> As package maintainer, I have been repeatedly nagged about the versioning of
> the essentially TDF-hosted but officially external libs (not only orcus, but
> also wp*, cmis and friends). "Proper" versioning would go with full so-name
> versioning for ABI-changes etc.
FWIW, liborcus clearly defines API version.  The one for 4.0 is 
liborcus-4.0, and the one for the master is liborcus-6.0. Is there 
anything else you are suggesting we do?

>   AFAIK Rene is retrofitting this somewhat on the
> Debian packages, but it would be better if this would happen directly upstream.
> If we dont want to do that work, wouldnt it make sense though to at least
> detect the version in the configure-script to safe newcomers frustrations?
Sure. That would be a great idea.  I have no objection.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice Calc hacker, SUSE.