Re: strict shlibs relations (Re: Accepted plib1.5 1.5.0-3 (i386 source)) (was: Bug#144668: plib1.5: shlibs are overly restrictive)
Hi Josip
Am Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:48:57AM +0200 hat Josip Rodin getippert:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:29:43PM +0200, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
> > > > > No. plib is a C++ library. I expect them to change the API in
> > > > > the devel release (1.5.x are devel releases). This breaks binary
> > > > > compatibility in C++. Therefore, the strict dependencies are
> > > > > warrantable.
>
> If it's that bad when it comes to compatibility, why not simply avoid
> shipping the shared library and instead just provide the static library?
That's what one usually does with C++ libraries to avoid such
problems. Back in 1999, I tried this do and dropped the .so
libraries from the packages (which are not built by upstream but
by me) and the result was this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=49648
Regards
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