[Xlibs] libXfont shared library version

[Eric Anholt]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 19:55, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 19 o'clock on Nov 8, Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> > Like this?  What should the package version be?  Some of the xlibs have
> > a package version equal to the shared lib version, others don't.
> 
> Yeah, the patch looks fine.  Did you test on BSD and Linux to make sure 
> the .so gets the right version extension?
> 
> I don't know about package versions; we should come up with some kind of 
> sensible plan.  I think we'll have to plan an fd.o desktop release version 
> at some point, then we can base the package versions on the overall fd.o 
> release version.  As to what that version number should be, I really 
> couldn't say; it may be version 7 (as in X11R7).

Yeah, the version numbers came out right (.so.1.4.1 on linux, .so.1 on
FreeBSD).  So, go ahead and commit with the package version number
change?

For what it's worth, I'm working on getting the fd.o xlibs into FreeBSD
already.  I'm really frustrated with the monolithicness of even our
split XFree86 packages, and the lack of shared libs for some of them is
causing problems on other platforms.  What I'm doing right now is
building ports of the current libs, and putting snapshots on my homepage
with a ".p1" (pre1) suffix on the version number.  When I get those
working well I'll move our XFree86 packages to using those (or releases
if they're ready), with the XFree86-4-libraries packages providing the
remaining libraries from XFree86 and depending on the fd.o ones.  The
one thing that would be bad for this system is if any of the version
numbers of the packages go backwards for their final release, so it
would be nice if we could sort that out.

I would lean towards the idea of the libraries initially having the
shlib version as the package version, and then increasing the package
version independently from there on out.  The desktop release version
wouldn't be related to the versions of the individual parts.

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Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
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