* Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) wrote: > * Josselin Mouette (joss@debian.org) [040712 18:25]: > > Are you asking to have a new source package at each SONAME change? > > Except in some rare cases (e.g. libpng), that's a very bad idea. > > A new source package is not required. You can just provide more binary > packages for a transition time from one source package. Without a new source package you'd be compiling two libraries from one source w/ two different SONAME's. Getting that right, and forcing the existing build system (whatever it is) to do it could be rather.. interesting. Stephen
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