Re: DO NOT REMOVE the lib packages after updates
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) wrote:
>> * Josselin Mouette (joss@debian.org) [040712 18:25]:
>> > Are you asking to have a new source package at each SONAME change?
>> > Except in some rare cases (e.g. libpng), that's a very bad idea.
>>
>> A new source package is not required. You can just provide more binary
>> packages for a transition time from one source package.
>
> Without a new source package you'd be compiling two libraries from one
> source w/ two different SONAME's. Getting that right, and forcing the
> existing build system (whatever it is) to do it could be rather..
> interesting.
>
> Stephen
I hope I'm not mistaken here but when you include the soname in the
name of the library deb and it changes the DAK will keep the old
package in archive since there is no replacement for it, right?
MfG
Goswin
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