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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#367165: octave2.1: please put runtime librari


From: Torsten Werner
Subject: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#367165: octave2.1: please put runtime libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib/octave-VERSION
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:21:49 +0100

On 11/25/06, Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> wrote:
I am sympathetic to your cause and would also love to fix the bug.  However,
I am afraid this is not going to happen soon.  This would imply an effective
fork from upstream, mainly because the shared library business implies the
maintenance of the SOVERSION.  This is a task that should be done upstream
and I am really not inclined to have the Debian Octave Group taking it over.

That has already been discussed in the bug report: "... there's
nothing wrong with using 'liboctave.so.2.1.73' if there is no ABI
guarantee at all." That means there is no maintainance of a separate
SONAME; just use the upstream version and use it in the package name
too. Strictly speaking the bug is really serious since it violates the
shared library policy. The current state is the so called DLL hell
well known from non free operating systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hell .

Regards,
Torsten

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