Re: Bug#796917: snappy1.0.3-java: dependency on libsnappy1

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi Andreas,


> libsnappy1 is being replaced by libsnappy1v5.
>  Your arch:all package has

>a hardcoded dependency on the former (how does that even work?).>
>
>Before I simply add a hardcoded libsnappy1v5 I would like to ask for
>comments whether there is some better way to solve this.


Well, I'm not a java expert, but in general this approach is wrong.

however snappy-java code seems smart enough to understand where to find the library
at runtime (this isn't a build-time dependency, but a runtime one) and use it.


I'm not sure there is a smarter approach, to let shlibs to its job, because snappy is
used as a plugin in this particular case, so hardcoding the libsnappy1v5 might be
the best way to do the trick.

Did you try if the package works on different architectures?

cheers,

G.