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Re: library soname changed, now what?



Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com> writes:

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

You should change the version number (Debian revision, generally),
rebuild, and reupload.  That makes the question of "does trickle
1.06-2 depend on libevent0 or libevent1" unambiguous, among other
things.  "It really is a new build of the package."

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
	-- Abra Mitchell



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