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Re: [DebianGIS] libgdal renaming



On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> 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. 

Not exactly. We just decided about package name, not library
name. 

	Silke

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