On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:54:32PM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> On 20010702 David Odin wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:54:43PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >> There are libglib1.2, libglib2 and libglib1.3_6. Which one is suposed to
> >> be *the* libglib?
> >>
> > all of them!
> > libglib1.2 is the stable version
> > libglib2 was the name for the development version until 1.3.6
> > libglib1.3_6 is the name for the development version since 1.3.6, to
> > respect to MandrakeSoft lib policy, which allows anyone
> > to install different versions of the same library at a
> > time, thus allowing to install new versions of a lib
> > without breaking dependencies on program.
> >
>
> So libglib1.3_6 should have obsoleted-deinstalled libglib2, I suppose.
>
No! libglib1.3_6 should be able to be installed together with previous
version (libglib2...)
> BTW, why a funny name like libglib1.3_6, instead of libglib1.3.6 ?
this is due to our policy: the name of the package is libglib1.3, and
the soname of the library is 6.
> If rpm names do not support 3-number versions in name, use just 2.
2 is just a bad name, since the name is libglig1.3...
> More uniform should be libglib1.2-1.2.10-Xmdk and libglib1.3-1.3.6-Xmdk ?
libglib1.3_6 is a development version, and its soname change every time.
libglib1.2 is the stable version: the soname stays the same for version to
version.
> So you can have toghether libglig1.2-1.2.x and libglib1.3-1.3.x....
>
You can have together libglib1.2-1.2.x and libglib1.3_y-1.3.y.
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