On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:02:58PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adrian Bunk > > > [...] > > | If libd1 is uploaded and only one of proga and libv0 is recompiled with > | libd1 this results in proga linked with both so-versions of the library. > | I remember problems with two so-versions of libpng, later with > | libssl0.9.6 and libssl0.9.7, and with libvorbis (at the time of the big > | libvorbis breakage [1] > > This is solved with versioned symbols.
It can be solved with versioned symbols. How many libraries in unstable use versioned symbols? At least on my system, it's only a very small minority. > | There are problems with so-name changes (I remember one library having > | 5 (five) different so-names within one month), but they should be > | solvable via communication between maintainers. > > libgal(23 at the moment), I'd think? Yup (but it's better now). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed