Re: About shared objects

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:59:58PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  What's happening if :
> 
> Package: A
> Depends: libB-ocaml
> 
> (libB-ocaml contains dllB.so)
> 
> and a new libB-ocaml is being released but is binary incompatible
>  with the previous version of libB-ocaml.
>  How do we prevent such case currently?
>  - shared objects have no SONAMEs
>  - package names are unversioned.

You bump the virtual provide of the libB-ocaml and the libB-ocaml-dev
packages. 

Mmm, it is late now, i will have to think more about it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther