Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-22 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:41:04PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Bryan Donlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070621 21:51]: > > +curl (7.16.2-6) unstable; urgency=low > > + > > + * Add libcurl*.so.3 to libcurl*.so.4 links (Closes: #429945) > > + > > + -- Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bryan Donlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070621 21:51]: > +curl (7.16.2-6) unstable; urgency=low > + > + * Add libcurl*.so.3 to libcurl*.so.4 links (Closes: #429945) > + > + -- Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:33:38 -0400 > + > curl (7.16.2-5) unstable; urgency=low > >[ Steve

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-21 Thread Bryan Donlan
tags 429945 + patch severity 429945 critical title 429945 Missing libcurl.so.3 symlink thanks On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:21:41PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > >Debian has not actually changed the upstream so-name. The libcurl3 package > >actually co

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-21 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bryan Donlan wrote: Debian has not actually changed the upstream so-name. The libcurl3 package actually contains libcurl.so.4, and a symlink to that from libcurl.so.3. Please see the debian.release thread for more details: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-21 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: Having consistent so-names as defined by upstream on different distributions has the advantage for users of creating some binary compatibility between different distributions. If Debian starts to diverge from upstream so-names this becomes much harder.

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-21 Thread Bryan Donlan
Debian has not actually changed the upstream so-name. The libcurl3 package actually contains libcurl.so.4, and a symlink to that from libcurl.so.3. Please see the debian.release thread for more details: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/17257 Binaries built against other di

Bug#429945: changing the upstream so-name is evil

2007-06-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: curl Version: 7.16.2-5 Severity: serious Having consistent so-names as defined by upstream on different distributions has the advantage for users of creating some binary compatibility between different distributions. If Debian starts to diverge from upstream so-names this becomes much ha