Re: libraries being removed from the archive
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:07:56PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> 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
Amen.
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