Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 15:56, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> There is a problem, though. The library names collide, so one would
>> have to have libjack1-0 and libjack2-0. This would mean that the
>> shlibs files would have to provide alternative dependencies (like
>> ffmpeg is doing for the unstripped variants), which would require a
>> binNMU run to change the dependencies, and finally then jack2 could be
>> uploaded. Oh and take steps to make sure jackd1 depends on libjack1-0
>> only (and same for jack2). I think this is much too complicated.
>
> Oh, you mean both use unversioned soname?
>
> Yes, that complicates things.

It is not an unversioned soname. Both versions are ABI compatible,
thus have the same soname.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler