Headsup: new API and ABI changing goffice update headed towards rawhide

[Hans de Goede]

Hi All,

I've been working on updating gnumeric to the 1.8.x tree, this needs the latest 
stable 0.6 series of goffice, therefor I'm also updating goffice from 0.2 to 
0.6, which means a change in soname, and in API.

The only other user is abiword, a patch for abiword for the 0.5 devel series of 
goffice, which lead to the 0.6 release is available here:
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SOURCES/abiword-goffice05.patch?rev=1.1

It should be trivial to adjust this patch to make abiword 's charting plugin 
work with goffice-0.6 (search replace 0.5 with 0.6).

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Another problem is that we also have the special goffice04 package as some 
packages needed goffice-0.4, while others where still using 0.2 . For now we 
can keep this package until the 0.4 users move over to 0.6, but there is a 
conflict between goffice04 and the new goffice-devel . The problem are a bunch 
of files under /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/goffice. Notice that this are API 
reference doc, so in the goffice04 case the are wrongly in the main package and 
they should be moved to the -devel package. This would make the conflict less 
severe as it then is a conflict between devel files, but still a conflict. 
Suggestion, move those files to the -devel package of goffice04 and put them 
under /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/goffice04 to avoid the conflict.

Thanks & Regards,

hans