-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/08 01:34, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-06-19 04:50 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/18/08 21:25, Hubert Chathi wrote: >>> The symlink should be installed in the libssl-dev package. >> Why? Why not in libssl? > > Because it would be wrong. When the library ABI changes, a new > libsslx.y.z has to be created _in addition_ to the current libssl0.9.8. > And the symlink should then point to the newer version.
But wouldn't it be the responsibility of package libssl0.9.newer to make that change? >> IOW, why should a production server need to install -dev packages? > > Good question, but you should ask the OP why ewire (whatever that may > be, I've never heard of it) needs that symlink. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhaA0IACgkQS9HxQb37XmdenwCfaDb//Scv8M4IeTrPoVGy2tF9 /9oAniSBwTKuL9sADvgjxDSskJcoo60a =BnLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]