I've never considered the .so to be a "development" library. So, when you add a function and move to ABI 14 and the corresponding .so.14, it's your expected behavior that all current applications will break?
I don't understand your logic. Dustin On Apr 22, 2014 10:55 AM, "Andreas Henriksson" <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:25:13PM -0000, Dustin Oprea wrote: > > What makes you think that I need development files? > > The topic of the bug report made me think that. > You said: "libarchive.so is not symlinked" > > This development file is shipped in the development package! > > Also you said: > "In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and > libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so . This > makes it hard to build against." > > Which I understand as you trying to do development, without having > development > files for libarchive installed. > > > I just need the library. > > And you already stated that you have it installed. So what's the > problem? > > > If I have to install the development package to get the library, > > then what's the point of the libarchive<x> package? > > Installing the development files are optional and only needed when you > want to build things against a particular library. > The -dev package (including header files, .so symlink, etc) is needed > at *build* time. > > The libarchive13 package contains the files needed at *runtime* for > programs dynamically linked to Shared Object ABI version 13 of libarchive. > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson > > > ** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310765 > > Title: > libarchive.so is not symlinked > > Status in “libarchive” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > > Bug description: > In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and > libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so . > This makes it hard to build against. > > Can you add this? > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1310765/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310765 Title: libarchive.so is not symlinked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1310765/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
