Bug 430756

Summary:	Provide libsoup-2.2 compat library
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry>
Component:	libsoup	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-29 17:59:45 UTC

Please, provide libsoup-2.2 compat library (as a separate package).

The newest libsoup-2.3.0 has new API, incompatible with the 2.2.x series, and
even introduces some design changes. This prevents the easy adoption of rawhide
applications, who depends on libsoup.

F.e., in a case of "libtranslate" it requries a deep upstream work, because
"libtranslate" uses "soup filters", which no more supported since the 2.3.x branch.

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-29 20:13:35 UTC

New Package CVS Request
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Package Name: libsoup-compat
Short Description: provide libsoup-2.2 API in F9 for backward compatibility
Owners: mbarnes
Branches: (none)
InitialCC:
Cvsextras Commits: yes

Basically I just want to provide the latest "libsoup" package from Fedora 8 as
"libsoup-compat" in Fedora 9.

Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-29 20:17:36 UTC

Meanwhile, Dmitry, you might want to enlist Dan Winship's help in porting
libtranslate to the new API.

Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-29 20:19:29 UTC

Oops, wrong flag...

Comment 4 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-30 12:24:03 UTC

I would prefer the name of "libsoup22" (and "libsoup22-devel" for devel).

The name of "compat-libsoup" does not specify that it is *exactly" the version
of 2.2, and this package will never have another != 2.2 version...

Comment 5 Kevin Fenzi 2008-01-30 17:23:22 UTC

All new packages (even compat) must go through review. Matthew is going to
submit this for review soon... clearing cvs flag.

Comment 6 Dan Winship 2008-01-30 19:38:08 UTC

I've already given Dmitry a patch for libtranslate, and I'm working on some
other packages. But drivel in particular is going to take a while.

BTW, the gentoo maintainer pointed out to me that libsoup 2.2 and 2.4 conflict
in /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup, so you'll have to fix that one way or the other.

Comment 7 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-30 19:51:38 UTC

Easiest solution would be to just disable API documentation on the compat
package and point people to http://library.gnome.org/devel/libsoup/2.2/.

Comment 8 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-30 21:45:37 UTC

Bug #430978 is the package review request (libsoup22).

This is exactly what we ship in Fedora 8, minus the API documentation.