* Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Conflict between library -dev packages, and -dev packages to > depend on correct version of other -dev packages. > - Would allow valid setups > - Packages may become FTBFS, but when they are fixed, > packages work. > > see libpkg-guide for fuller story. > And I think it is one way of going without versioned symbols.
This doesn't solve the problem, and -Bsymbolic only solves a portion of
the problem.
> Using versioned symbols is a workaround which is, although
> available within all Debian architectures, not available on
> everywhere, and considering free software as a whole,
> it might be better to notify upstream of library inconsistency.
Having upstream adopt versioned symbols should be a goal, of course.
Stephen
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