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Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6



Le mercredi 17 septembre 2008 à 19:52 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> [Josselin Mouette]
> > Yes, but that could be worked around by making libncurses6 conflict with
> > libncurses5 (<< version.with.symbols).
> 
> That only works if you rebuild everything that uses ncurses5 so the
> symbol _users_ know they are supposed to require versions.

Yes, you need to rebuild everything and to bump shlibs.

>   (And, like
> any proposal involving Debian-specific symbol versioning, it still
> doesn't allow non-Debian binaries to run safely.)

If a non-Debian binary links to only libncurses.so.5, it will run
safely, maybe with a warning. If it links to both libncurses.so.5 and
another library that we have rebuilt against libncurses.so.6, it will
fail.

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