Re: gfortran transition release goal proposal
Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> Lintian no complains if the soname and the package name are different.
> Do the libblas.so.3 et. al. sonames, which are also alternatives shared
> with atlas, need changing? As these also name alternatives, there is no
> natural way to satisfy lintian here.
This is a lintian warning that is intended for packagers of new libraries
and libraries without the complexities of alternatives. It is often, and
often should be, overridden for existing packages where there are
backward-compatibility reasons for having package names different than the
SONAME.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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