Re: Newer versions of libpng.
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:39:30 EDT Chris Fearnley (cjf@netaxs.com)
wrote:
> 'Philippe Troin wrote:'
> >But... 0.89c has a soname of 1, and a library name of 1.0.89c. Which
> >will be inconsistent with the upcoming release of libpng 1.0 (pretty
> >soon).
> >
> >As there are binary incompatibilities between 0.89c and 0.95a
> >(programs dynamically linked with libpng 0.89c won't work with 0.95a,
> >they'll crash), I'd like to bump down the library version to 0.95a
> >with a soname of 0.
> Yes, don't break other packages. Make the soname 0.95a if you must,
> but don't break other packages. See the slang package for the
> approach we've evolved on this issue.
Re-read the initial message. Packages *will* break whatever packaging solutions I take because of *binary* *incompatibilities* between the two versions of libpng.
What I'll do anyways is to rename the libpng1 package with libpng0 (as the version number suggests), and the packages libpng1 and libpng0 will be able to coexist, and as the sonames are different everything will be fine.
Libpng0-dev and libpng1-dev will conflict.
This looks like an acceptable solution.
Phil.
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