Rafael Laboissiere <raf...@debian.org> writes: > * Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> [2009-03-17 17:02]:
>> What is the rational for making the library private in the first place ? > In the case of the octave package, it is a decision of the upstream > authors. I think that one of the reasons is to avoid name clashes > between different branches of octave. For instance, we have curently: > octave3.0: /usr/lib/octave-3.0.4/liboctave.so > octave3.1: /usr/lib/octave-3.1.54/liboctave.so Ugh, so the shared libraries as distributed by upstream don't even have proper SONAME handling? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
