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

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> writes:

    Jeffrey> --On Monday, January 11, 2010 03:14:00 PM -0800 Russ
    Jeffrey> Allbery
    Jeffrey> <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Tim Mooney <mooney at dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu> writes:
    >> 
    >>> How much pain would it cause developers if the SONAME was
    >>> libkadm5clnt-mit.so.<N> instead of libkadm5clnt.so.<N>_mit?
    >> 
    >> The problem here is that it changes the name of the library that
    >> one specifies on the link line of programs, so anything that
    >> linked against the library would need to potentially change its
    >> build machinery, have code for detecting the new and old version,
    >> and so forth.  Now, since the MIT libkadm5clnt API had not
    >> previously been public, there probably isn't a lot of such
    >> software (I'm only aware of one package off-hand), but it
    >> definitely has more potential impact.

    Jeffrey> Or, it means you have a library with filename
    Jeffrey> libkadm5clnt.so and soname libkadm5clnt-mit.so.<N>, which
    Jeffrey> would also be poor.


Jeff, why would that be bad?  Several of us discussed and couldn't come
up with significant problems with that approach.