Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > Under the circumstances that seems a perfectly reasonable behavior for > upstream to implement, but in Debian we hold libraries to a higher > standard. If the library *does* change its ABI, the package name in > Debian will change even if upstream fails to handle this, so the check > within OpenLDAP is redundant; and in cases where Oracle releases a > patchlevel release that doesn't change the ABI, this actively works > against the packaging system.
Note that ABI in this context has to encompass the on-disk format as well, which I suspect Steve meant but which is worth saying explicitly, since my guess would be that's where OpenLDAP ran into problems in the past that caused this check to be added. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
