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Re: WARNING: libexpat1 1.95.2-2.1 breaks dependents



Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org> immo vero scripsit

> An NMU of libexpat1 1.95.2-2 done this weekend to make it work on
> the ia64 platform introduced a severe incompatibility with previous
> versions: it renamed libexpat.so.0.1.0 to libexpat.so.1.0.0.  This
> of course brings all dependent packages to a dead halt.

Why was this done in this way ? 
If it was going to be done in a proper way, a new shlibs file,
and a new package name should have been used, such as 
libexpat1debian ... :-P

This is not a good way to do it, please fix the situation as soon as possible.


regards,
	junichi

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