[Fwd: Bug#398488 closed by Kari Pahula <kaol at debian.org> (Re: Bug#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to match SONAME)]

[Scott James Remnant]

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Subject: Bug#398488 closed by Kari Pahula <kaol at debian.org> (Re:
Bug#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to match SONAME)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:48:24 -0800

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#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to match SONAME,
which was filed against the gecode package.

It has been closed by Kari Pahula <kaol at debian.org>.

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From: Kari Pahula <kaol at debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to
match SONAME
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:46:27 +0200

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:52:03AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Yet the matching development binary package is named libgecode7-dev,
> while it contains a libgecode.so that links to libgecode.so.8

The numbers in -dev packages are bumped with API changes and the
libraries' numbers are bumped with ABI changes.  There's no reason why
they should correspond to each other.

> There's no mention of any specialness in the changelog, so I assume this
> is simply a case of forgetting to change the -dev package name?

  * Added a default value for prop_bnd in int/distinct.hh to maintain API
    compatibility.

Feel free to reopen this bug if you find that API had changed between
1.3.0 and 1.3.1.
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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