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Re: libneon25, or libneon26?



On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:55:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> I understand how aptitude handles automatically installed packages.  
> Since I have always used aptitude on this box my question, I suppose, is 
> why is libneon26 still installed.  When I uninstalled whatever was 
> depending on it aptitude should have uninstalled libneon26 at that 
> time.  The only thing that I can see that SHOULD have created this 
> situation would be if the previous OOo was compiled for libneon26 and 
> the current OOo is compiled for libneon25.  But I can't see why the 
> maintainers would use an older library in a newer compile of OOo.  Does 
> anyone have any ideas on this?

  The version of openoffice.org on ftp.debian.org depends on libneon26,
whereas the (newer) version on security.debian.org depends on libneon25.
I don't know why this is -- maybe the person who build the etch version
had libneon26-dev installed and OOo picked that up automatically?

  Daniel



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