On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Only the major version is signficant; the minor version is -not used-
> at runtime.  So if everything is in /usr, then either all programs get
> the `old' libc....

If the major number is the same for a library, there's no need for
compatability libraries. So this doesn't matter.

I'm talking about this sort of situation:

    /usr/lib:
    libfoo.so.3.12
    libfoo.so.3.13
    libfoo.so.3 -> libfoo.so.3.12
    libfoo.so.4.1
    libfoo.so.4 -> libfoo.so.4.1
    libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.4

When we added the compatability package, which included libfoo.so.3.13,
the libfoo.so.3 link has to be updated.

cjs
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