Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > libjpeg6b is broken and shouldn't be used by any new packages. It > > doesn't respect the upstream maintainers choice of soname, namely > > libjpeg.so.62, and hence makes Debian incompatible with Red Hat. > > (RedHat does use the the upstream soname.) Until somebody gets around > > to releasing a "libjpeg62" package, we should stick with libjpeg6a.
> Oooh. Interesting snag. So. We need to make a joint decision. I talked > to Jim Pick last night about putting 6b in slink, and get it in before the > freeze. However this makes me edgy. Jim, Chris? Your opinions? Maybe we > should just leave it at 6a...even Chris admits that 6b has not been tested. > I don't want to break every Imlib dependent package totally a week and half > before the freeze. Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so before the freeze. Cheers, - Jim
