On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:47:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > As to the bash breakage, please quote the number. Thanks.
The full description of it is in the logs of bug#35049. To get back to the policy proposal, I do think there are libraries that should not have shared versions. Namely, ones that are not yet at a point of their development where it makes sense to have a stable binary interface. If Debian were to release a shared version, that would mean picking a soname (and thus forcing upstream to live with that soname, which can be annoying if they had a different numbering scheme in mind), and it would mean changing the soname for every upstream release. For some libraries that's just not worth it. I also present publib-dev as an example of a library which currently provides only a static version, but I will let its maintainer speak for himself :-) -- Richard Braakman Looking for a job writing free software http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
