On 2010-02-16 11:12:28 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > I worked around the problem by doing: > > # cd /usr/lib > # ln -s libgoffice-0.8.so.8.0.0 libgoffice-0.8.so.7
A priori this is a bad idea: the fact that the soname changed indicates that the ABI has changed, so that you could expect crashes, file corruptions and so on. However as no incompatible changes have been announced upstream, I wonder why the soname has changed. I hope developers don't mix up software version and library interface version. > Is there any kind of automated check done on library packages to > ensure that packages that depend on the library don't get > broken by a missing symbolic link? The bug is not a missing symlink, but the fact that a different package name should have been used for the new, incompatible version. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
