On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Panu A Kalliokoski wrote: > If "versioned symbols" means including the versions of the dependencies > in the SONAME, the biggest drawback I see is that it using it will
Nothing of the sort. It stores the soname of the library along with its symbols, which then become known as soname + symbol. Dependencies are not in the scope at all. > In the sense of "being a widely-adopted standard", versioned symbols are > *not* here now. No, they are not, except where the breakage is so bad even RedHat and the other vendors can't ignore them with an straight face. That means libc (upstream does it), and I believe we (Debian) forced down their throats versioning for libdb2 and libdb3 as well. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh