Hi. I guess I'm a little confused. Why would it not make sense to make a so.1 symlink to the .so.1.1.1 library? I don't see why one would want them to differ. The 0.8 symlink could remain right?
Chris On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Romain Francoise <rfranco...@debian.org> wrote: > Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> writes: > >> From the debian runtime library document, shouldn't there be a symlink >> to the latest version of the library? > > Yes, there is one: > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.0.8 -> libpcap.so.1.2.1 > >> And isn't that something in the 1.x series? Is the version not 1.x? > > The version, yes. The soname, no. > >> The libpcap developers seem pretty receptive to things so I could talk >> to them depending on what might help. > > There's nothing they can do about this, the upstream build defines a > different soname. If someone were to package libpcap from scratch today > they would probably use it, but each distribution has to live with its > historical soname. > > -- > Romain Francoise <rfranco...@debian.org> > http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
