On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 06:04:03PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Now, this breaks existing installs of dolfin, so this is not an > > option. I am now wondering what the best course of action is. Do I > > create a new named package, or manually update the soname locally to > > Debian? Or, do I request removal of offending versions of the package, > > like upstream suggests? > > > So I haven't actually *checked*, but from what I understood of this > thread the ABI changes were compatible, which means there is and was no > reason to bump the SONAME, only the version in the shlibs packaging > metadata, for the added symbols in 2.4.2. This is not an upstream > problem, it's a bug in the package, there is nothing for upstream to do > here AFAIK.
That clears is up. I'll do the needful. Thanks. Sorry, Conrad, for causing the confusion. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
