Bug#382195: Offer of Assistance

[Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@hp.com>]

Sean Kellogg <skellogg@gmail.com> writes:

> Would it be better to just keep the binary package as libmtp so that
> end users don't have to hunt around for the correct package should
> upstream continue to be a moving target?

The problem is that between end user and libmtp, you have an
application (like amarok for instance) which expects a specific soname.

Your proposal would need amarok to depend on libmtp version B while
other package may still require version B. In other words, you'd need
to synchronise the release of new version of libmtp with new version
of *all* application that use libmtp. This would be a nightmare.

HTH


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Dominique Dumont 
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