Rafael Laboissiere <[email protected]> writes: > * Bill Allombert <[email protected]> [2009-03-17 17:02]:
>> What is the rational for making the library private in the first place ? > In the case of the octave package, it is a decision of the upstream > authors. I think that one of the reasons is to avoid name clashes > between different branches of octave. For instance, we have curently: > octave3.0: /usr/lib/octave-3.0.4/liboctave.so > octave3.1: /usr/lib/octave-3.1.54/liboctave.so Ugh, so the shared libraries as distributed by upstream don't even have proper SONAME handling? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
