[snip] > > Hence, a program compiled with the Version 1 header will crash > > if linked against the version 2 library. [snip] > > This makes distributing > > binary programs very hard if the library is a '.so' because it's > > very likely that the program will become linked to a library > > that doesn't match the header it was compiled with.
This cannot happen when using Debian packages, since they (should)
include appropriate Conflicts.
Falk
