Bug#585786: lvm2: libdevmapper and dmsetup should have versioned dependencies

Sun Jun 13 22:44:39 UTC 2010

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:29:06PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:42:14PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
> > I've updated by accident (lack of better knowledge...) only
> > libdevmapper, but not dmsetup. Afterwards my system didn't boot anymore:
> The package manager should enforce updating the packages together.
> It makes no sense to have a system with dmsetup older that libdevmapper.

No, this is not how an ABI works. This means that libdevmapper have a
broken interface with its users.

Bastian

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