[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Ludovico,

Ludovico Gardenghi wrote:

> Thanks for the report and sorry for the delay.

No problem and glad to hear from you.

> Indeed the conflict will be needed with the next release, as we're
> much probably going to move libvdeplug.so from the -dev package to the
> shared library one

That violates policy §8.1 "Run-time shared libraries" and would make
smooth upgrades of packages that use the shared library difficult.

> (since several virtualization tools which use VDE
> call dlopen with the non-versioned name, see #536373 for example).

Would it be possible to make a different package, such as vde2,
provide the non-versioned symlink, and such packages depend on it?

> VDE version 2.3.2 is going to be released soon in unstable.

Thanks for the update.  If there's anything I can do to help, let me
know.

Regards,
Jonathan