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Re: Please test zfsutils 9.0~svn226163-1



On 22.10.2011 10:57, Robert Millan wrote:
> I wouldn't go through all this hassle unless we really need to.  Can't
> we just move the current .so.0 files from their respective
> lib{zfs,zpool,etc} packages to zfsutils package and remove the -dev
> packages?


Technically? Yes. Without problems.
We need a flexible interpretation of Debian Policy §8.1 when doing so
though ("The run-time shared library must be placed in a package whose
name changes whenever the SONAME of the shared library changes"), but
since our SONAME shouldn't change when adding symbols only, we're ok.



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