[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Library soversion numbers in SuiteSparse

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Daniel Rus Morales <danirus at tol-project.org> [2008-02-04 18:28]:

> I'd prefer to contact the upstream author and suggest them to use the 
> current:revision:age schema.

I am afraid this will take much longer than is need for getting the gfortran
transition into lenny.  However, it does not cost anything to ask.  Would
you be willing to contact the upstream author on this issue?

> If they were not in the mood, we could start in 0:0:0, and increase only
> the revision. The former is the better, the later at least let us to keep
> the libraries findable by other packages.

Increasing only the revision will be a big problem if the upstream author
introduces backward-incompatible changes in the API or the ABI.  In sum, we
will have to take the burden of updating appropriately the soversion.  This
is what I tried to avoid in my proposal.  Besides, starting at 0:0:0 is not
a good idea, because we will eventually reach 3:0:2, which will yield
lib*.so.1.2, which will create incompatibilities with the current
libsuitsparse package.

-- 
Rafael