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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:53:48PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>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.

Ah. I got it now (and understand the problems you described).

Thanks for clarifying :-)


  - Jonas

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