On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > libgcj7-0 (and by extension libgcj7) are packaged such that any > > soname increment will result in the old versions of libgcj no > > longer being installable unless the gcj version is also > > incremented. > > won't fix. /usr/lib/gcj-4.1/libjvm.so is in both packages, therefore > the conflict is needed.
dpkg-deb -c libgcj7_4.1.1-10_i386.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/share/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/share/doc/gcj-4.1-base/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 485 2004-07-28 19:13 ./usr/share/doc/gcj-4.1-base/README -rw-r--r-- root/root 10260 2006-01-31 05:33 ./usr/share/doc/gcj-4.1-base/NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2351 2004-07-28 19:13 ./usr/share/doc/gcj-4.1-base/THANKS.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/gcj-4.1/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 795 2006-07-30 09:03 ./usr/lib/gcj-4.1/libgjsmalsa.la -rw-r--r-- root/root 8876 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgij.so.7.0.0 -rw-r--r-- root/root 21729380 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgcj.so.7.0.0 -rw-r--r-- root/root 8044 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgjsmalsa.so.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/share/doc/libgcj7 -> gcj-4.1-base lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgij.so.7 -> libgij.so.7.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgcj.so.7 -> libgcj.so.7.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-07-30 09:04 ./usr/lib/libgjsmalsa.so.0 -> libgjsmalsa.so.0.0.0 It could be that it not being in libgcj7 was a bug, and the placement of libgjsmalsa.so.0 was a bug as well... but at the next soname bump adding unofficial sonames to the shared libraries in /usr/lib/gcj-4.1 would be a good idea to ease transitions. Don Armstrong -- "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is possible." http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
