Hi,
>
> Maybe I haven't seen it, but IMHO the Debian policy should
> be more precise about _which_ soversion to use for shared
> libraries.
>
> Can we use our own soversion, ignoring other Linux distros
> and the rest of the world? Is upstream always right?
>
> Of course this affects portability on binary level. In my case
> I stumbled over libpcre3.
This isn't too much of a policy issue. It's about
1. backwards compatibility within Debian
2. cross-distribution binary-compatibility
3. upstream compatibility
where 2 and 3 are usually less important than 1, since we don't
pretend to be binary-compatible with other distributions.
regards,
junichi
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