Hi Falk, > > > Hence, a program compiled with the Version 1 header will crash > > > if linked against the version 2 library. > [snip] > > > This makes distributing > > > binary programs very hard if the library is a '.so' because it's > > > very likely that the program will become linked to a library > > > that doesn't match the header it was compiled with. > > This cannot happen when using Debian packages, since they (should) > include appropriate Conflicts.
"should" is the right word here. Since the author does not give any guarantuee for not changing the headers without notice, I won't be able to give such a guarantee either. Or is a maintainer expected to scan the source for such changes? Regards, Philipp
