[Openal-devel] Re: OpenAL & freealut Library Versioning

[Sven Panne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openal-devel-admin at opensource.creative.com 
> [mailto:openal-devel-admin at opensource.creative.com] On Behalf 
> Of Reinhard Tartler
> Sent: Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 09:01
> To: openal-devel at opensource.creative.com
> Subject: [Openal-devel] Re: OpenAL & freealut Library Versioning
> 
> Sven Panne wrote:
> > I'm leaning towards 1:0:1, just like Ludwig from SuSE, but 
> the initial 
> > mail seems to imply that Debian might favor 1:0:0. :-/ Any other 
> > packagers on this list who can share their opinions? What are the 
> > Debian reasons for 1:0:0?
> 
> The reason is simple: We already have a libopenal.so.0 in 
> debian packaged, which is binary incompatible with current openal.
> [...]

My concern is that the tons of applications and games out there have a
dependency on libopenal.so.0, and if we bump to libopenal.so.1, suddenly
the "portable" module would be binary incompatible with every SW out
there. Although much has changed internally, I don't think this is
needed, nor is this actually wanted.

I don't fully understand why the current "portable" module is binary
incompatible with previous versions on Debian, but perhaps your next
mail will enlighten me... :-)

Cheers,
   S.