Re: GTK oops?
Jules Bean wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> >
> > > Dear overworked gtk maintainer...
> > >
> > > Did you deliberately upload a version 1.1.14 of gtk1.1.13? Looks confused
> > > to me..
> >
> > Doh!
> >
> > I'll shut up now.
> >
> > Lesson - read the changelog..
>
> Going for the record in self-sustaining threads..
>
> There *is* a problem here:
>
> jules@pear% zcat /usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13/changelog.Debian.gz | head -8
> 7:43PM
> gtk+1.1.13 (1.1.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * New upstream version. Note source name did not change, as the
> soname is still .13, because .14 and .13 are binary compatible.
> * Make absolutely sure the postinst for libgtk1.1.13 only calls
> ldconfig on 'configure' calls
>
> -- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:11:44 -0800
>
> jules@pear% dpkg -L libgtk1.1.13 | grep /usr/lib
> 7:44PM
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libgdk-1.1.so.14.0.0
> /usr/lib/libgdk-1.1.so.14
> /usr/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.14.0.0
> /usr/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.14
>
> So it does in fact provide a library with soname .14. This breaks
> programs linked against .13..
>
> Jules
According to the newest changelog (off debian-devel-changes) the
maintainer realized this after he uploaded and uploaded a new and
correct .13.
--
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