On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 03:46:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Method for shlibs to work with libfoo.so (#42236) > * Under discussion. > * Proposed by Joseph Carter. > * This is a proposal to make binary-only shared libs that have no > soname work with dpkh-shlibdeps. The idea is to detect such > packages and use "." for the soname in the shlibs file.
Two things. First, this is horrible and abhorrent, and unversioned libraries shouldn't ever happen, and other packages shouldn't start depending on them and icky icky icky icky ewww. Second, if we're willing to support non-free stuff, we probably ought to do it as well as we're willing and able. Since Joseph seems to be willing, it seems reasonable that he should also be able. So I second this, with the reservation that un-versioned libraries shouldn't be used except with extreme provocation. Oh. Actually, could debian-policy.deb please suggest packaging-manual.deb, and probably vice-versa? This might replace the dpkg suggestion (since I think the packaging-manual got split from that)? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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