* Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote: > - Conflict between library -dev packages, and -dev packages to > depend on correct version of other -dev packages. > - Would allow valid setups > - Packages may become FTBFS, but when they are fixed, > packages work. > > see libpkg-guide for fuller story. > And I think it is one way of going without versioned symbols. This doesn't solve the problem, and -Bsymbolic only solves a portion of the problem. > Using versioned symbols is a workaround which is, although > available within all Debian architectures, not available on > everywhere, and considering free software as a whole, > it might be better to notify upstream of library inconsistency. Having upstream adopt versioned symbols should be a goal, of course. Stephen
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