Bug#34610: unsuffixed shared libraries

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Gilbey 
What's the current status of this bug report?  How will we deal with
this problem?

   Julian

   MICO (www.mico.org) doesn't use so versions, but always puts the
   full version into the library file name. An example result of ldd
   is:
  
   coolo:~ ldd /usr/bin/idl
   libmico2.2.3.so = /usr/lib/libmico2.2.3.so (0x4001b000)
  
  I'd say that's a mico bug. It should not do that. Someone hasn't
  understood how shared libraries work.
  
  I don't think any other package should be changed to cope with this
  particular misbehaviour.
  
 Why should this be a misbehaviour? If you do it that way, you make
 sure that it the version dependencies work on every system even with 
 static libraries. It may be that this is unusual, but I can't see this
 as a bug of mico!

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg

Bug#34610: unsuffixed shared libraries

1999-10-26 Thread Herbert Xu 
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What's the current status of this bug report?  How will we deal with
 this problem?

How is this a bug in the policy? If upstream insists on new sonames for each
release.  We must release packages with new names for each release as well.
There is no other choice since the new libraries won't satisfy the dependency
of old binaries.
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