Re: libraries being removed from the archive

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> In this case, libexif8 -> libexif9, this is a major soname bump, so should
> have required a new source package.  The maintainer was probably derelict in
> this case.

Uh, no.  Changing the binary package name the way we've always
handled soname changes, except with a small number of very popular
libraries.  It's a lot less work, and it doesn't require creating a
new package that will be orphaned almost instantly.  If it turns out
to be a problem for a particular library, and oldlibs package can
be created for it afterwards, when the need for it has been demonstrated.

Richard Braakman