Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > The reason why a library's shlibs get changed
> > is that binaries built against one version of the library can't be
> > guaranteed to run correctly against older versions.
> 
> Because the interface changed or because the previous version was buggy?

Because of interface changes, ONLY.  Screwing with shlibs due because a
previous version was "buggy" is a very bad idea.

> I have always assumed the first reason, but it seems many maintainers are
> using the second.

Well, bring the issue up with them.

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