Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#367165: octave2.1: please put runtime libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/lib/octave-VERSION

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Nov-2006, Torsten Werner wrote:

| 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 .

If this is a huge problem for Octave, then please feel free to provide
some specific solution.  Please also remember that there is no ABI
guarantee and there is not likely to be one for some time to come.

Thanks,

jwe