On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:02:28PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I have had a chance only to skim the discussion about this, but...
> I think it would be unwise for Debian to arbitrarily use a different > soname here than upstream and, presumably, everybody else. It can only > hurt binary compatibility. I have not had the chance to ask upstream > about it, and it doesn't look like anyone else has asked him either. > Even if upstream bumped soname unnecessarily, I think the proper thing > to do is maintain compatibility with upstream and everyone else. This is why I explicitly said to provide compat symlinks so that the binary is available under both sonames. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
