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Re: Script to fix library dependencies



On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:

vizzie >   vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
vizzie >   The version-specific dependency is to avoid warnings from ld.so about
vizzie >   using older shared libraries with newer binaries.                
vizzie >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That is the case when the minor is incremented. See my previous posts
citing sections from the GCC-HOWTO.

vizzie >Please take some time to collect information and understand the
vizzie >technical details involved before proposing hare-brained 'solutions'
vizzie >such as this.

I understand exactly what I am doing. The problem is that the (>= 1.2.3-1)
clause has been used in the wrong way. It need to indicate not the current
version (which it usually does) but the last version to which
compatibility exists. Please take the time studying all the messages
dealing with the subject on debian-devel.

vizzie >The proper thing to do is to have shared libraries appropriate to the
vizzie >release you wish to build for installed on your system.

Appropriate dependencies on libraries are not commonly done in debian
packaging. Instead the sysadmins are simply forced to use the newest
library on the developers machine.

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