Unless you're saying that it'll become 13.1, and 14 will only be introduced when it's backwards-incompatible with 13.
Dustin On Apr 22, 2014 11:07 AM, "Dustin Oprea" <myselfasun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
