On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 16:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > > Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 11:03 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > > a écrit : > > > > It is probably enough to version symbols in the new soname packages
> > > No. > > Before anyone asks why: when you require a symbol without a version, the > > dynamic linker will pick any of those it finds in the dependent > > libraries. Which means it can pick the correct (unversioned) one as well > > as the versioned one. > Mabye it would work if we'd add symbols to the current ncurses, rebuild > everything, then introduce the new one with the new symbols? Unless we do this step /before/ the release of lenny, there will still be issues on partial upgrades from lenny to squeeze, so it really depends on how thorough you want to be here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
