Re: what's the difference btw. libelf1 and libelfg0?

[Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>]

Le Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:09:05 -0800,
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> a écrit :

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Christian Groessler wrote:
> > Ignoring the freebsd version, I'm wondering what's the difference
> > between libelf1 and libelfg0. They seem to be built from the same
> > sources, 'apt-get source' retrieves the same files.
> 
> Two different sonames. The g0 version exists for compatibility with
> certain pre-packaged binaries which require it.
> 
> Most (all, hopefully) things in Debian should require the libelf1
> package instead of the libelfg0 package:
> 
>  This shared library may be needed by pre-packaged programs. To
> compile programs with this library, you will need to install the
> libelfg0-dev package as well.
> 

Thanks Don for this, there were still some packages in the archive
using libelfg0, I've opened bug reports against them.