Re: possible mass bug filing: spamassassin 3

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Sven Mueller 

| Well, perl modules don't have an SO name.

: tfheen@vawad /usr/lib > apt-cache show libvideo-capture-v4l-perl| grep ^Depends
Depends: perlapi-5.8.3, perl (>= 5.8.3-2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)

Seems like perl provides an API that the module depends on, no?

| And actually, the "library" part of SA isn't intended to be the most
| often used one.

If it is provided, it must work.  If it is changed in an incompatible
fashion, it must bump soname.  Or make SA into a library proper, with
libmail-spamassassin-perl being the module part and spamassassin
depending on that.  You'd still have to bump soname, but only for the
library part.

This is _not_ hard to get right, and there is really no exuse not get
it right.

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