Re: Converting libraries and plugins to use gtk3

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

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On 11/06/10 14:28, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Any library that links to gtk+, gdk or gdk-pixbuf, that switches to gtk3
> will need to have the new version be separate from and parallel
> installable with the old version.
> 
> If this is not done then distributions can not ship applications still
> using gtk2 linking to the older version of the library, as this change
> is binary incompatible (and since you can't mix gtk2 and gtk3 in the
> same app).
> 

I'm sorry but may I ask for interpretation of the following text? I
interpret that separate packages (as well as Gentoo developers
responsible for GNOME packages) that it applies at package-level.

However evolution-data-server developer(s)[1] thinks otherwise and
believe it is sufficient if the only libraries linking to gtk+-3.0 (like
libedataserverui-3.0.so) need the bumping and rest of packages bundled
do not.

It creates making a package harder, especially in source based
distribution as it requires splitting package by hand and to resolve
incompatibles between versions.

Additionally one file
(/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server-1.2/extensions/libecalbackendweather.so)
have 2.x version (1.2) while linking to libgtk+-x11-3.0.so.0.

Could anyone clarify (and reopen if appropriate) bug 623462[1]?

Regards

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623463
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