Re: [DebianGIS] libgdal renaming
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:43:45PM +0100, Silke Reimer wrote:
> OK. We have to accept this though we will have the same problem
> with other distributions as well (as Fedora for example where
> gdal is not far from being accepted for Fedora Extra).
>
> Since I am not keen to use sonames on a system that are not
> supported by upstream I vote for renaming the library itself:
>
> instead of libgdal.so we should have libgdal<gdalversion>.so
>
> This would require to patch mapserver, qgis etc. so that they
> link against libgdal<gdalversion> instead of libgdal.
>
> The package name should be
> libgdal1-<gdalversion> resp. libgdal1-<gdalversion>-dev as we
> already decided last week.
>
> What do you think?
>
The same conclusion already reached last week.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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