Re: libXXXc102 should NOT provide libXXX
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:20:53PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Just read in imagemagick's changelog that new package libmagick++5.5.3c102
> (g++ 3.2 ABI) Provides: libmagick++5 (g++ 2.95 ABI).
>
> Shouldn't this be reported as a serious bug?
>
> This will cause blind upgrades from old libmagick++5 (that is in Woody) to a
> library with an incompatable ABI, causing all software (not locally-built,
> but installed from Debian!) linked to the library to break.
Does anything have an unversioned dependency on libmagick++5? If not
then it is a bug but not a particularly serious one, since we don't have
versioned provides.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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