Re: libffm adoption/change of soname
Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm adopting libffm, and noticed that it has the erroneous soname of
> libffm.so.0. Since the library interface has changed on just about
> every upgrade, it should really be libffm.so.0.28.
>
> On the other hand, the interface has only changed once since it was made
> a Debian package, so libffm.so.1 sort of makes sense. But this is
> incompatible with upstream's name.
>
> So I'd like to leave the package name as libffm1(-dev), but change the
> soname. Packages won't need to change dependencies, but binaries built
> against it will need to relink since libffm.so.0 will no longer exist.
> As far as I know, the only package affected is illuminator, which I
> maintain (hence my adoption, as it was headed for the trash bin).
>
> Any comments/objections?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Adam
Why not rename the package and soname to libffm0.28(-dev) so they make
sense and match up again?
Just my 2c.
Goswin
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