Bug#639293: librsl1: Shared library package includes files that will clash when the soname bumps

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Fri Aug 26 07:40:49 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 18:54:24 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:

> Package: librsl1
> Version: 1.42-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The files in /usr/share/rsl/ will be a problem if you want to
> multi-arch this or have librsl2 (when that appears) co-installable with
> librsl1.
> 
This should be serious, not wishlist.
(Policy 8.2: If your package contains files whose names do not change
with each change in the library shared object version, you must not put
them in the shared library package.)

Cheers,
Julien





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