On Sunday 11 April 2004 19:38, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Frans Pop writes: > > On Sunday 11 April 2004 17:29, Dominique Devriese wrote: > >> Hendrik Sattler writes: > >> > Why? The same problem as always: Debian does not ship the > >> > /usr/lib/libidn.so in libidn11 but only in the development > >> > package libidn11-dev. However, runtime detection does look for > >> > exactly that name. > >> > >> Yes, you're right. As always, upstream KDE made the bad decision > >> to dlopen libs that weren't meant to be dlopen'd. > > > > How about filing a bug against upstream as well to ask them to use > > the library the proper way? > > Well, the problem with that is that KDE upstream has the tendency to > say "It works for us, and we don't care about the Debian policy.", > meaning we have to do the work ourselves anyway..
And sometimes it is the fault of the library folks making API changes in non-major releases, virtually forcing others to support more than one version at a time (e.g. OpenSSL) Actually dlopen'ing lib for advanced features is helping packager, otherwise they would have to build two versions, one with having the option enabled, one without. Cheers, Kevin
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