Re: SONAMES! (was: lesstif: what's the story)
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 07:26:03PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > You can upgrade if you want to, but the whole point of the new package is so
> > that you don't have to. Lesstif 0.86 broke binary compatibility without
> > changing the soname. The debian package was compiled with the old ABI until
> > I took over. We have to switch over now because otherwise Debian will be
> > incompatible with other distributions.
>
> Why did the soname not change?
Because lesstif is trying for binary compatibility with motif, which requires
that the soname match motif's soname.
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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