* Michael Stone: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:46:19PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:31:16AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 at 09:28:24 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> > Why not? This seems like the type of problem that SONAMEs are made for. >>> > What am I missing? >>> >>> SONAMEs are set by the upstream developer in their build system >> >>Yes, I am aware of that, thank you. I meant to say that this feels like >>something upstream could do a SONAME bump for. >> >>I'm wondering why they chose not to. > > You'd have to bump the soname for almost every library on the system.
And make sure that upstreams introduce per-architecture sonames, otherwise we have soname bumps all across the board on 64-bit architectures, too.
