Re: GTK oops?

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> > Dear overworked gtk maintainer...
> > 
> > Did you deliberately upload a version 1.1.14 of gtk1.1.13?  Looks confused
> > to me..
> 
> Doh!
> 
> I'll shut up now.
> 
> Lesson - read the changelog..

Going for the record in self-sustaining threads..

There *is* a problem here:

jules@pear% zcat /usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13/changelog.Debian.gz | head -8
7:43PM
gtk+1.1.13 (1.1.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version. Note source name did not change, as the
    soname is still .13, because .14 and .13 are binary compatible.
  * Make absolutely sure the postinst for libgtk1.1.13 only calls
    ldconfig on 'configure' calls

 -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:11:44 -0800

jules@pear% dpkg -L libgtk1.1.13 | grep /usr/lib
7:44PM
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libgdk-1.1.so.14.0.0
/usr/lib/libgdk-1.1.so.14
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.14.0.0
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.14

So it does in fact provide a library with soname .14.  This breaks
programs linked against .13..

Jules

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