On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:48:01PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Enrico Zini wrote: > >14:06 < enrico> I can see two ways: one is creating the -pic library (but > > there's no direct support on libtool to do that) and the > > other > > is changing soname at every upload (putting more load on > > the > > ftpmasters) > The point is that if we do that, we might bend policy over even further > and not change the package name when we change soname, but instead > provide a shlibs file that tells people linking against the library to > use the specific version.
The problem in not changing the package name is that yes, deps will be set alright, but then packages will start conflicting between each other because two different versions of the shlibs won't be able to be installed at the same time. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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