Ah - thank you for the symbol list! From the decorations (and names) it looks these symbols are all OpenAL extensions...except for alBufferAppendData, which appears to have been (incorrectly?!?) exported as a non-decorated symbol too. One document from 2001 referes to the "well-documented" alBufferAppendData, but it's not in the 1.1 spec, not even as a dropped symbol.
Anyway, I can't deny that, to the extent that there might be an (undocumented and now deprecated?) core function in OpenAL, that that would warrant a .so version name change. I don't think the other symbols with decoration should warrant a soname change; like OpenGL, OpenAL extension discovery should be done at runtime to cope with renderers that don't provide all extensions; changing the major version because a particular extension was dropped would punish apps that correctly check extensions at runtime. cheers Ben -- Scenery Home Page: http://scenery.x-plane.com/ Scenery blog: http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/ Plugin SDK: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/ X-Plane Wiki: http://wiki.x-plane.com/ Scenery mailing list: [email protected] Developer mailing list: [email protected] -- /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 missing from Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273558 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, which is subscribed to openal-soft in ubuntu. Status in “openal-soft” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: libopenal1 Version: 1:1.3.253-4ubuntu1 The libopenal1 binary package in Intrepid replaces the old libopenal0a binary package from Hardy, Gutsy etc. libopenal0a created /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0, but the new libopenal1 package does not (it creates /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 instead). This breaks some third-party binaries, eg X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/). Suggested fix: The libopenal1 binary package should create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 to /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 Alternative fix: Retain the old libopenal0a binary package in Intrepid, in addition to the new libopenal1 binary package. And change the libopenal1 package so that it does not replace libopenal0 or libopenal0a. _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-ubuntu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-ubuntu
