Re: Questions about library names
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:03PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> OK, let's say now that the current is increased, and the new name of the
> library is libgpgme.so.1.0.0. This means that I should change in the
> debian/control file the name of the package and it will become libgpgme1
> but, what happens with the old package (libgpgme0) and with the programs
> compiled against it?
When the soname is increased, there will be a new release, so you will
have a new (source and binary) package called libgpgme1 (and
corresponding new libgpgme-dev). You can either choose to continue to
maintain the old library (moving it into section oldlibs), or remove
it from the distro (file a bug against ftp.debian.org). Don't do the
latter, though, until you're pretty sure no-one still needs the
earlier version.
Julian
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