Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:08:01 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:46:44 +0100, Mikulas Patocka said:
> 
> > When I did it (from Etch to Lenny), two programs that I have compiled 
> > manually ("vim" and "links") stopped working because Etch and Lenny have 
> > binary-incompatible libgpm.
> > 
> > If some library cannot keep binary compatibility, it should be linked 
> > staticaly, dynamic version shouldn't even exists on the system --- so that 
> > no one can create incompatible binaries.
> 
> No, all they need to do is bump the .so version number.

That's what Debian did. Obviously, I can extract the old library from the 
old package. But non-technical desktop user can't.

Mikulas
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