On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:30:10PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > So between us we're going to have to work something out regarding library > > the name! > Certainly, we should solve this. > > > I'm not sure where to begin on discussing this, but perhaps first I might > > ask how long mailutils has been installing a Sieve interpreter with the > > name "libsieve.so"? > > It is installing it since version 0.1, which was released in > 2002. And how long libSieve is using this name?
In Debian, libsieve is only available since mid-2006. According to the copyright annotations, libsieve started to be developed on 2003: Libsieve is Copyright 2003-2006 Aaron Stone <[email protected]> Debian also has the same problem, which I wanted to tackle post lenny release. We currently conflict each other. > > Is it possible to rename Mailutils' libsieve.so to, say, libmu_sieve > > without breaking dependencies? > Well, I do not have any objections to renaming it, especially given that > the rest of Mailutils' libraries are already prefixed with `mu_'. This > could, however, cause problems when upgrading existing Mailutils > installations, because it will require relinking all programs that use > Mailutils Sieve implementation, which is not normally needed when > upgrading shared libraries. > > Please, allow me some time to consider it. I'll get back to you in a > couple of days. Thanks Sergey! Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
