What's the current status of this bug report? How will we deal with this problem?
Julian > > > MICO (www.mico.org) doesn't use so versions, but always puts the > > > full version into the library file name. An example result of ldd > > > is: > > > > > > coolo:~> ldd /usr/bin/idl > > > libmico2.2.3.so => /usr/lib/libmico2.2.3.so (0x4001b000) > > > > I'd say that's a mico bug. It should not do that. Someone hasn't > > understood how shared libraries work. > > > > I don't think any other package should be changed to cope with this > > particular misbehaviour. > > > Why should this be a misbehaviour? If you do it that way, you make > sure that it the version dependencies work on every system even with > static libraries. It may be that this is unusual, but I can't see this > as a bug of mico! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg