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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