Re: Bug#49648: plib1: Where is -dev package?
Hi Falk,
> > > Hence, a program compiled with the Version 1 header will crash
> > > if linked against the version 2 library.
> [snip]
> > > This makes distributing
> > > binary programs very hard if the library is a '.so' because it's
> > > very likely that the program will become linked to a library
> > > that doesn't match the header it was compiled with.
>
> This cannot happen when using Debian packages, since they (should)
> include appropriate Conflicts.
"should" is the right word here. Since the author does not give
any guarantuee for not changing the headers without notice, I
won't be able to give such a guarantee either. Or is a
maintainer expected to scan the source for such changes?
Regards,
Philipp
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