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Re: Shared libs dependencies



On 2011-09-24 10:16 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:

> If a symbol is removed in a later version
> (and the soname is not bumped, due to a mistake), the above method will
> result in a library that, when installed, will break any app using the
> old, removed symbol.

Erm, this will also happen if you don't have symbols files.  In fact,
using symbols files together with "dpkg-gensymbols -c4" catches this
kind of mistake.

Sven


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