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Re: Issues with releasing bzip2 1.0.1



Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:26:53AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi have some issues with releasing bzip2 1.0.1.
> > Namely, the current bzip2 source package (0.95d-3) generates three
> > packages:
> > 	libbz2
> > 	libbz2-dev (depends on libbz2)
> > 	bzip2 (depends on libbz2)
> > 
> > Quite a few packages depend on libbz2 0.95b.
> > And 0.95d-3 has been released only a couple of days ago.
> > For some reasons, libbz2-1.0.1 has to conflict with libbz2 << 0.95b-3.
> 
> For what reasons? 

Because of an earlier packaging packaging mistake. See
<[🔎] 8766nxa40k.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> for details.

> Do applications compiled against libbz2 0.95 not work with libbz2
> 1.0.1?

No the functions names are different.

Phil.



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