Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:19:51PM +0100, Henning Moll wrote:
> > In addition i have some questions to the Depends section in
> > debian/control: ${shlibs:Depends} is a nice feature, but i think
> > for many packages/libraries it is way to strict, because it's
> > always using the versions of installed packages which may not be
> > necessary. So what's the best/common way to handle this?
>
> The library version number is there for some reason: binary compatibility.
> If you drop the version number from library depends, your package may
> break when a new library is there.I think you meant when an old library is there, not an new one. Since libraries are not meant to be forward compatible moving code compiled with a newer library to an older one might not work. The older one did not know about the newer one. They are designed to be backward compatible in that moving to a newer library should work. The newer one knows about the older one. Assuming that is what you meant or please correct me. Bob
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