On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:24 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Is it still okay if the binary interface is not at all stable, or > guaranteed to be compatible between versions? I'm thinking of the > case where a Debian packager adds shared lib support for better > resource efficiency, but upstream doesn't implement it, and interfaces > change at potentially every new release.
> It seem to me that there is no reason to requires libs to be in a > separate package, Felix doesn't. The runtime library has a shared version, but it is NOT in a separate package because it is an undocumented implementation detail. IMHO: Every package should be independently useful: my rtl isn't so it should not be *permitted* in a separate package. [BTW: perhaps this will change in a future release] -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>
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