Re: libkpathsea3 incompatibility problem
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:20:46PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> (1) File RC bugs against all of these packages, requiring them to
> recompile against the newer libkpathsea3, and have versioned
> Conflicts: with the old versions of these dozen or so packages.
>
> (2) Change the so version number of the libkpathsea library to 4, even
> though this matches nothing in the upstream, and provide an old
> libkpathsea3 package in oldlibs for compatibility (this would be a
> source package entirely separate from tetex-bin derived from the
> old teTeX sources).
>
> (3) Like (2), but change the so version number to 0 to indicate
> unstable interface.
>
> I prefer (2) or (3). Other comments?
(2) is the way to go IMHO. This was already done in other cases
and does not break anything.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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