Re: Better soname linking

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 11/01/2009 06:23 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 2009-11-01 09:46, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > -version-info 23:0:1 will create a libfoo.so.22.1.0 and there is a
> > > symlink libfoo.so.22 to it, so that programs originally linked for
> > > v22 continue to work with a v23 that implements APIs 22–23.
>
> > Wow.  This would be a heavy change. [...]
> > Can't we use some other method to make it obvious to the distributor
> > that libfoo has gone from 22.0.0 to 22.1.0?
>
> Well the problem is really independent of any of the per-distro package
> mechanisms:

I don't agree that this is a problem with libtool, it is a packaging issue.

If libfoo went from 22.0.0 (provided by foo-2.0.0) to 22.1.0 (provided 
by foo-2.0.2) then new binary packages created that use the new libfoo 
need to have a versioned dependency >= foo-2.0.2, end of story.

Peter
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