[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement, take 3

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jon,

Am 20.07.2011 um 21:07 schrieb Jonathan Craig:
> Non-Unique SONAMEs) Bad developer, bad.  Oh well, the packager must
> still deal with it.  I'm not sure of an example package like this to
> check against my ubuntu catalog.

The old libnet.so

> This situation calls for either
> making the versions exclusive (using conflicts with) or configuring
> them for there own tree.  Using alternatives is a risky undertaking
> because it will almost always eventually cause grief. If alternatives
> puts the .so in a common lib directory and a user builds against it
> then changes the alternative choice, whatever they've built will
> break.

The only viable solution is to fix that and to force a unique soname.
This is what we have done on libnet1.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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