On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:27:48AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > patch that reverts the SONAME change in the autotools by breaking the > > link between the upstream version string and the library version info > > and setting version info directly. > > I would instead leave the upstream code alone, and provide libarchive.so.1 > as a backwards-compatible symlink to libarchive.so.2, permitting the package > name to be reverted to libarchive1. Doing it the other way has the downside > that any binaries built on Debian will be incompatible with other systems.
That sounds reasonable, and addresses my concern about binary compatibility. I am still not sure why this hack is needed, but I don't think it will break anything. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
