Hi, Mark Brown wrote: > 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. > The inevitable crashes when a program ends up dynamically linked to two different versions of a library are far more invasive...
... so, submit the change to Upstream. Everbody wins. That being said, I'd support replacing that AM question with something along the lines of ... [ insert after the other shared-library questions ] "Let's assume other libraries link to yours. What might happen when you need to change its soname?" [ see above. ] "What can you do to prevent the problem?" [ ditto. ] "When should you do this?" [ Now. ] -- Matthias Urlichs
