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Re: Soname in mozilla-browser package name



On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > Since the mozilla-browser package provides several shared libraries that
> > are used by galeon and skipstone, shouldn't it be treated as a library
> > package and include the soname in the package name?  This would help
> > prevent breakage to galeon and skipstone when mozilla-browser breaks
> > binary/source compatibility, which seems to happen when a new version is
> > released.
> 
> The soname won't help here, when upstream doesn't keep compatibility
> between version (even where it said it would not change the API)

And people wonder why there are psycopathic murderers in the world?

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