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Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning



Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> writes:

> If your app is linked against libavcodec53 and against libavdevice53 and
> libavdevice53 is linked against libavcodec54 and libavcodec* doesn't use
> symbol versioning, your app will crash because of symbol conflicts.

Which is why all shared libraries should use at least trivial symbol
versioning that assigns all symbols a version that changes with the
SONAME.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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