Zvi Dubitzky <d...@il.ibm.com> writes: > Hi > What do you mean the libraries are broken ?
It might be helpful to read Policy chapter 8: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html which explains the purpose of the library SONAME. The problem here appears to be that you have libraries without any version number in the SONAME. This both violates Policy 8.1 because there's no versioning in the SONAME: Every time the shared library ABI changes in a way that may break binaries linked against older versions of the shared library, the SONAME of the library and the corresponding name for the binary package containing the runtime shared library should change. Normally, this means the SONAME should change any time an interface is removed from the shared library or the signature of an interface (the number of parameters or the types of parameters that it takes, for example) is changed. This practice is vital to allowing clean upgrades from older versions of the package and clean transitions between the old ABI and new ABI without having to upgrade every affected package simultaneously. and it makes it impossible to use the shlibs section because the shlibs file syntax requires a version number in the SONAME (see Policy 8.6.3). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3rgwuv8....@windlord.stanford.edu