On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:41:15 +0200, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > We discussed this in the release team and concluded that having two > libmysqlclient.so.18 files in two packages is likely to run into problems > later if/when they diverge, so there is no point delaying that pain. > Especially as they are not identical even now. > > I wonder if pkgconfig can be any help here? That involves a one-time change > to client packages if they don't already use pkgconfig but doesn't have to > be repeated if the default switches. > Client packages surely don't care about the specific SONAME? So long as the .so symlink in the -dev package doesn't change, clients shouldn't notice.
Cheers, Julien
