Re: SONAME migration: should the symbols file be continued?
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> As I understand, when a library generated from a foo source packge moves
> to a new SONAME, we change its library package name:
> library file: libfoo.so.1 -> libfoo.so.2
> library package: libfoo1 -> libfoo2
> But what should we do with the symbols file as the BEST PRACTICE?
> Should we start with:
> $ mv debian/libfoo1.symbols debian/libfoo2.symbols --- case #1
> or, should we start fresh with:
> $ : >debian/libfoo2.symbols --- case #2
The short version is that it doesn't matter. In your example, since there
were no versions of libfoo2 prior to 2.1, a dependency on libfoo2 (>= 2.1)
and a dependency on libfoo2 (>= 1.2) or (>= 1.1) are equivalent.
Generally I reset all the versions to be the earliest version of libfoo2,
but I can't think of any likely scenario in which it would ever make any
practical difference.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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