On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:00:35PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > As for 'no consensus', I'm not sure where you get that idea from, I'm > pretty confident the consensus in Debian and with some upstreams is to > use versioned symbols which are basically just a stamp of the SONAME > for each library. It's reasonably simple, can be automated and > handled by libtool and similar things (in fact, a patch exists to do > exactly this for libtool) and has minimal impact on upstream.
Whenever this comes up on -devel it always seems moderately controversial: one sees people advocating things like putting versioned symbols in as a Debian-local change (which many would see as excessively invasive), for example. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
