On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:04:47AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > When there are such binary incompatibilities between every single
> > version of a library, the best solution is probably to change the SONAME
> > and package name between each versions, just like for libhdf5 of
> > libdirectfb. It's a hassle to rebuild all depending packages, but this
> > way you're sure there's no problem.
>
> This is definitely a possible policy. What do you think of a slightly
> looser policy -- to bubmp the Debian-specific soname when any of the
> headers or related files have changed between releases? Upstream
> mentioned three specific files in the original note.
IMHO this would be sufficient. Let's face it, lam/mpi isn't quite as widely
used as libstdc++ -- so we don't have to go multiple versions "just because
we can".
Just my $0.02.
Dirk
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