On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:44:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:57:52PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > Preparing and testing such upgrade mechanism would be a bit boring work > > > (there are few developers who care releases and sysinst itself) > > > so I'm afraid no one will take it... > > > > For the ones in base, compat versions should exist in /usr/lib/XXX. > > Redirection magic exists. > > Not for old versions of libs. (Also, last I checked, sufficiently old > i386 bins don't run on amd64 because COMPAT_xx for old xx isn't present.)
Old versions are not touched by the upgrade process either, so they just remain. Joerg
