Re: library soname changed, now what?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:37:07PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has
> changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which
> is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i
> have to change absolutely zero, but just recompile to make it fork fine
> again. i guess this happens all the time, but what should i do?
> 
> - bump the version number a bit and add a respective changelog entry,
>   then re-upload

Yes.

> - or ask (where?) to rebuild the source that is already in the archive ?

No.

You might also (temporarily) change the build depends to
libevent-dev (>=0.7b) to *force* the autobuilders to use the new
library.
               cu andreas