On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:14:43AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > uses libdb.so.2, since it is included with libc6. People should not > have been using it to compile against in the first place, given all > my warnings from the past about this (and all the problems we've > already had with it trying to keep the compatibility around). For the next time something like this is planned: What speaks against a shlibs entry marking the lib as obsolete like this: libdb 2 unsatisfied-lib (>> 100) That way nobody will upload packages with that lib given that every developer at least test-installs the packages he maintains before uploading. At least if would not be unnoticed as long... cu Torsten
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