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Re: Bug#751767: libBLT changes SONAME without changing package name



On Sun, Nov  2, 2014 at 13:58:10 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 at 15:46:28 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:07 AM, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> > > That only partially solves the problem, in particular partial upgrades are
> > > still likely to break. Furthermore the problem will recur next time libBLT
> > > changes it's soname.
> > 
> > I don't expect changing its soname in next few years (or maybe even
> > forever). The
> > package is dead upstream. But you're right. It should be fixed properly.
> > I'll split out the library to libblt2.5-8.6 (which won't work without
> > the Tcl code, so it'll
> > go to libblt2.5-8.6 too making the blt package dummy) and I'll add the
> > necessary 'breaks'.
> 
> Hello release team,
> Since this is going to be a transition, and a new upstream SONAME for
> jessie seems unlikely, should this bug be jessie-ignore'd
> and fixed for jessie+1 instead?
> 
If the SONAME changed between wheezy and jessie then this ought to be
fixed for jessie, IMO.

Cheers,
Julien

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