Bug#34610: unsuffixed shared libraries
What's the current status of this bug report? How will we deal with
this problem?
Julian
> > > MICO (www.mico.org) doesn't use so versions, but always puts the
> > > full version into the library file name. An example result of ldd
> > > is:
> > >
> > > coolo:~> ldd /usr/bin/idl
> > > libmico2.2.3.so => /usr/lib/libmico2.2.3.so (0x4001b000)
> >
> > I'd say that's a mico bug. It should not do that. Someone hasn't
> > understood how shared libraries work.
> >
> > I don't think any other package should be changed to cope with this
> > particular misbehaviour.
> >
> Why should this be a misbehaviour? If you do it that way, you make
> sure that it the version dependencies work on every system even with
> static libraries. It may be that this is unusual, but I can't see this
> as a bug of mico!
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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