On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 01:28 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 03:46:03PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Package: xlibmesa-gl > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > direct rendering is disabled until libglide3-dev is installed since > > libglide3.so > > is dlopened which is (due to Debian policy, I guess) only in package > > libglide3-dev. > > Thus, this package needs to Suggest: libglide3-dev and not libglide3 > > (pulled in > > by libglide3-dev) unless you get the maintainer to not follow policy, here. > > Hmm. I am thinking the tdfx Mesa DRI module should dlopen the object by > its name *including* the shared object major version number. > > After all, if that major version number changes, any object dlopen()ing it > will probably need to be aware of that fact, as the interface will have > changed in an incompatible way. In my view it's kind of naïve to expect > otherwise.
This analysis is absolutely correct. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
