Re: How to version libraries
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:44:03PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:37:47PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > We're talking about cases where version libfoo 1.5 has the same soname
> > as libfoo 1.4, but the shlibs for 1.5 specifies "libfoo1 (>= 1.5-1)";
> > then if this version is in sid and packages build against it, they
> > will not be allowed into testing because libfoo1 is frozen at version
> > 1.4.
>
> Why would libfoo1 1.5 not be installable in testing? If it's not really
> compatible with programs that specified libfoo1 (>=1.4) it should have a
> different name, no?
It's a new version, and new versions aren't allowed in during a
freeze...
Julian
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