[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:12:55PM +0000, James Lee wrote:
> $ dump -Lv /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so | grep -c SONAME
> 0
> 
> Sadly not yet.  Lib needs versioned SONAME set.

well, it WOULD be possible to force the new lib, to have a new SONAME
of "libnet.so.1.1"


> Others have packed both the old and new libs in the new package and let
> SONAME do its stuff.
> 
> People wanting to continue building to the old API can install the old
> package.

so if force of SONAME is done that is done, this would be possible.