Bug 652

Summary:	Incompatible libraries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joe Tennies <rotund>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joe Tennies 2002-02-11 01:35:01 UTC

Could you split libraries when they are no longer backward compatible (so they
don't appear in `qpkg --dups`).  Big ones I know of are db and freetype (I know
freetype-1.x and freetype-2.x are not compatible at all).

By this I mean: freetype-1.4.2 and freetype2-2.0.4

or whatever.  I mean, PHP3 and PHP4 are still mostly compatible, so they don't
need it.  When libraries do that jump, they are typically not compatible w/ each
other.  This will become more prominent as libraries in Linux get rewritten due
to poor original implementation.  (I know SDL will do it and GTK+ & GLIB are in
the process of it.)

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-11 13:25:31 UTC

This is solved by binary compatibility slots, now in testing.