Re: Libraries with ABI changes

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

* Hamish Moffatt 

| An advantage of keeping the old library in oldlibs for a while is that
| local admins may have their own binaries compiled against these
| libraries. Rapid replacements of libraries break local binaries.

Not as long as you bump the package name.  There's nothing pulling the
old library package off an admin's system so unless the admin removes
it himself the local binaries should work fine.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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