Re: Dependence on libbfd
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Santiago Vila's letter:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Juho Östman wrote:
>
> > In the description of the package 'binutils-dev' there is a notice that
> > developers shouldn't make packages which depend on the shared libbfd.
> > What does that mean?
>
> It means there is not any way for a package using that shared lib to
> automatically guess which package it should Depend: on, because there is
> no *.shlibs file. A long time ago there was a versioned libbfd package,
> which was only used by binutils, I think the maintainer just decided to
> simplify this.
today i installed memprof and it didn't started because my libbfd was
x.x.x.15 and memprof was compiled with .19. maybe returning to the old
versioned package is a good idea.
ciao,
federico
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