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Re: RFS: libssh - SSH and SCP library



Le mardi 05 juillet 2005 à 20:26 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> > > > The package can be downloaded at http://dgnr.free.fr/repository, or
> > > > with apt-get with "deb http://dgnr.free.fr/ repository/"
> > > 
> > > From the look of it, your packaging looks wrong.
> > > You're probably creating a package that ignores SONAME versioning.
> > 
> > I'm not exactly sure to completely understand what you meant, since I'm
> > only a beginner, but I tried to correct it. Could you please check it
> > again?
> > Thanks anyway for your help
> 
> 
> I have two comments:
> 
> 1. It's linking with openssl, and claiming to be LGPL, which 
>   I understand to be incompatible.

It is compatible.

> 2. I think the upstream either doesn't care or much understand 
>   shared library versioning; it's a nascent shared library which 
>   will undergo several revisions of ABI/API changes.
>   I would consider calling its SONAME 'libssh.so.0' to be 
>   something prone to failure.

Yes, it would have to be called libssh-0.11.so.0. libtool can do that
with the -release flag.
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