On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:09:42AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:19:02 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I think my work is mostly ready for unstable as it is. The last step is to > > convince Guillem Jover, the main dpkg maintainer, to merge that in the > > master branch. He believes that supporting odd cases encourages bad > > practice on library management. I don't think so. On the contrary I'd like > > to promote sane library management and I made some efforts in the included > > documentation to promote that.
> First, thanks for your work on this! > For libraries with versioned symbols, just checking for the needed > version nodes should be enough, and I'd say that adding symbols to > a previously existing version node or breaking their ABI is broken, > and something that we should not tolerate. Huh? Adding new symbols without adding new version nodes doesn't break anything of substance, so why would you say this is "broken"? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]