[Gábor Gombás] Bug#564566: libkadm5clnt7: SONAME conflict with Heimdal

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jan 11 18:11:31 EST 2010


Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> writes:

> They have substantially similar API's, with differences no larger than
> might be expected as a result of evolution over time or with different
> implementations of other libraries (e.g. libc).  Certainly the
> differences are not worse than with libkrb5 itself, which may also have
> this problem someday.

Heimdal has changed the SONAME of their libkrb5 quite a bit more, so it's
currently at version 25.  So it's possible but relatively unlikely unless
the rate of change of the MIT SONAME goes up considerably.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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