Re: SONAME of librpm

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:34:45PM -0300, Ruda Moura wrote:
> Why is librpm still named librpm.so.0 in rpm 4.0.x even having a
> different API from rpm 3.0.x?
> 

Because the ABI is largely (if not entirely) unchanged, and the change to
the API is mostly (if not entirely) unchanged.

Because most of the breakage is due to mobving a big hunk of the ABI into
a new library, and changing the soname has nothing to do with that. Linking
libraries might address the issue, but there are reasons not to do that
included in the libtool info page.

Because.

73 de Jeff

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