Re: [bug-mailutils] Mailutils libsieve.so conflicts with libSieve

[Jordi Mallach]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:30:10PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > So between us we're going to have to work something out regarding library
> > the name!
> Certainly, we should solve this.
> 
> > I'm not sure where to begin on discussing this, but perhaps first I might
> > ask how long mailutils has been installing a Sieve interpreter with the
> > name "libsieve.so"?
> 
> It is installing it since version 0.1, which was released in
> 2002. And how long libSieve is using this name?

In Debian, libsieve is only available since mid-2006.

According to the copyright annotations, libsieve started to be developed
on 2003:
Libsieve is Copyright 2003-2006 Aaron Stone <address@hidden>

Debian also has the same problem, which I wanted to tackle post lenny release.
We currently conflict each other.

> > Is it possible to rename Mailutils' libsieve.so to, say, libmu_sieve
> > without breaking dependencies?
> Well, I do not have any objections to renaming it, especially given that
> the rest of Mailutils' libraries are already prefixed with `mu_'. This
> could, however, cause problems when upgrading existing Mailutils
> installations, because it will require relinking all programs that use
> Mailutils Sieve implementation, which is not normally needed when
> upgrading shared libraries.
> 
> Please, allow me some time to consider it. I'll get back to you in a
> couple of days.

Thanks Sergey!

Jordi
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