On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:49:51AM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > Could I trouble you to recompile and dupload evince against > libdjvulibre1 (>= 3.5.14-6) to deal with soname change? Evince is the > only package that uses the lib, so that will clear the issue.
No, libdjvulibre1 was included in a stable release; you MUST rename the package if the soname isn't going to be reverted. > I'm not sure if the API has changed in a fashion that justifies a > chance in soname. Upstream revs it as a matter of routine prior to a > formal release, just to be on the safe side I suppose. I will chat > with upstream about how we can prevent this from happening again > without my introducing a gratuitous Debian incompatibility. Soname changes follow ABI changes, not API changes; though with s/API/ABI/, your question is still a relevant one. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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