On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > In this case, libexif8 -> libexif9, this is a major soname bump, so should > have required a new source package. The maintainer was probably derelict in > this case.
Uh, no. Changing the binary package name the way we've always handled soname changes, except with a small number of very popular libraries. It's a lot less work, and it doesn't require creating a new package that will be orphaned almost instantly. If it turns out to be a problem for a particular library, and oldlibs package can be created for it afterwards, when the need for it has been demonstrated. Richard Braakman
