Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Stephen Frost wrote: > > We need to make a decision on how to properly handle multiple library > > versions ending up linked into the same process. > > I think what we should do is simple: 'do not do that'. We have been very bad on tha

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Stephen Frost wrote: > It's been done already in some places from my understanding > (libdb, libpng). The fix being hard to implement doesn't somehow make > the problem go away. libdb seems to have some evil hackery which puts a version string in symbol names, it doesn't use ELF versio

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Previously Stephen Frost wrote: > > We need to make a decision on how to properly handle multiple library > > versions ending up linked into the same process. > > I think what we should do is simple: 'do not do that'. If we do that then we will

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2003-03-07 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaFri Mar 7 12:33:14 MST 2003 Modified files: debian : postinst.in Log message: Josip: * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from the old Packaging manual,

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2003-03-07 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaFri Mar 7 12:14:45 MST 2003 Modified files: . : policy.sgml Log message: Josip: * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from the old Packaging manual,

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2003-03-07 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaFri Mar 7 11:48:32 MST 2003 Modified files: debian : control Log message: Josip: * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from the old Packaging manual,

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2003-03-07 Thread Debian Policy CVS
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy Module name:debian-policy Changes by: srivastaFri Mar 7 11:38:55 MST 2003 Modified files: . : upgrading-checklist.html debian : changelog Log message: Josip: * Added missing bits of information about Desc

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Stephen Frost wrote: > We need to make a decision on how to properly handle multiple library > versions ending up linked into the same process. I think what we should do is simple: 'do not do that'. > - Implement versioned symbols > - May cause binary compatibility issues >

Versioned Symbols

2003-03-07 Thread Stephen Frost
Hey all, Please excuse the (minor) cross-post but I think the technical committee needs to find an answer and that answer then be set in policy. We need to make a decision on how to properly handle multiple library versions ending up linked into the same process. A few of the options