On 16 May 2005 at 21:25, Steve Langasek wrote:
| Package: libquantlib0
| Version: 0.3.9-1
| Severity: serious
|
| Hi Dirk,
|
| Reviewing the changes in quantlib 0.3.9-2 has brought this fact to my
| attention:
|
| $ dpkg -c q/quantlib/libquantlib0_0.2.1.cvs20020322-1_i386.deb |grep
libQuantLib
| -rw-r--r-- root/root 2815996 2002-03-23 14:49:03
./usr/lib/libQuantLib.so.0.0.0
| lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2002-03-23 14:48:43 ./usr/lib/libQuantLib.so.0
-> libQuantLib.so.0.0.0
|
| $ dpkg -c q/quantlib/libquantlib0_0.3.9-1_i386.deb |grep libQuantLib
| -rw-r--r-- root/root 5192416 2005-05-02 22:22:23
./usr/lib/libQuantLib-0.3.9.so
| -rw-r--r-- root/root 208464 2005-05-02 22:22:23
./usr/lib/libQuantLibFunctions-0.3.9.so
| lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-05-02 22:21:47 ./usr/lib/libQuantLib.so
-> libQuantLib-0.3.9.so
| lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-05-02 22:21:57
./usr/lib/libQuantLibFunctions.so -> libQuantLibFunctions-0.3.9.so
|
| The soname of the quantlib library has been changed, but the package name
| has not. Since there are packages in woody which have a Depends:
That's been the case since upstream started encoding the soname in the
package name some time in the 0.3.* release series, yes.
| libquantlib0, this is a release-critical bug because it invalidates the
| shlibs from libquantlib0 in woody and breaks partial upgrades between stable
| releases. E.g., consider a user who has quantlib and quantlib-python
| installed on woody, begins transitioning to sarge, and pulls in
| quantlib-ruby -- the quantlib-python package will be silently broken by the
| new libquantlib0 package that is pulled in.
In theory, yes. In practice, only the three packages I just uploaded
(quantlib-ruby, quantlib-python, rquantlib) depend on libquantlib0.
| Please rename libquantlib0 so that the package name reflects the soname of
| the library it contains (e.g., libquantlib-0.3.9).
I really do not want to do this because the soname will change for every new
upload of quantlib. This would flood the archive with meaninglessly redundant
packages I would have to run after.
Can we address this some other way?
Dirk
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