On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:09:56PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I think there's a deeper issue here.  Suppose that he'd started with
> 3.1, installed those packages, then upgraded to (say) 5.0.  Presumably,
> the "delete obsolete files" part of the upgrade would remove
> libssl.so.3, etc., at which point his packages no longer work.

That won't happen. "delete obsolete files" *never* removes outdated
major versions shared libraries. It only removes outdated minor
version of shared libraries.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/