On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > So I try to get this working on Debian, too, and create a libmysqld0 > package with a shared library instead. Speaking of it, which soname > version should I give it? 0.0.0? Or something like 0.5137.0 to somehow > encode a version as I cannot promise that *I* know when > they make API changes?
Well, as the maintainer, you should review their API and bump the soname as necessary. Maybe you could do this in cooperation with RedHat. > .so.5.1.37 seems not to be a good idea in case MySQL somewhen starts > to ship a libmysqld.so.5 themselves. But that means transitioning all reverse-depends for every mysql minor release. It might be a good idea for you, but not necessarily for the rest of the distribution. (Unless there are only very few packages using the mysql lib). So I think the 0d 1d etc. approach (if easily possible; at least with libtool it's not possible out-of-the-box I think, however cmake can do it) is better. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org