[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#735275: Bug#735275: libudev1: Keep libudev.so.0 as a link to libudev.so.1

[Martin Pitt]

Simon Pepping [2014-01-14 11:33 +0100]:
> A number of applications depend on libudev.so.0, e.g. Google Chrome.
> These applications solve the problem by creating a link libudev.so.0
> -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1. Many users are affected by such
> failures, and on the web there are many questions about the problem.
> 
> It would be better if the package libudev1 installs such a link.

No, that would be a dangerous hack. There is a reason why the soname
got bumped, as libudev1 removed a few obsolete symbols. Surely they
are not likely to be used, but if an application does, and it would
link to libudev.so.1 thinking it was libudev.so.0 it would crash.

For those third-party applications I suggest either bundling
libudev.so.0 or providing a libudev0 package along with it.

I'm not an authoritative maintainer of udev in Debian, but I suggest
to "wontfix" this.

Martin
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