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Autor: Noel Torres
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> escribió:

> Noel Torres <envite@???> writes:
>> Let's forget what is NOT important
>>
>> "Ivan J." <parazyd@???> escribió:
>> [...]
>>> What I am proposing is Devuan to support multiple versions of leveldb
>>> and tie Bitcoin packages to the right one. Another option is to never
>> [...]
>>
>> This is not only an issue with so-called leveldb. It happens a lot
>> that two packages you need request different versions of the same
>> library, not always co-installable. Mostly if you go beyond "stable".
>> Or even if you got stuck on oldstable and try to install some simple
>> new package.
>>
>> And this is a good amount of the "dependency hell" when it comes to
>> Desktop users.
>>
>> So, I think that having some way of installing multiple versions of
>> the same library would be a useful feature.
>
> But this already exists. Eg, the machine I usually use for development
> (Debian 6 based) has the following version of libdb installed:
>
> ii  libdb4.2         4.2.52+dfsg-5     Berkeley v4.2 Database  
> Libraries [runtime]
> ii  libdb4.5         4.5.20-13         Berkeley v4.5 Database  
> Libraries [runtime]
> ii  libdb4.6         4.6.21-16         Berkeley v4.6 Database  
> Libraries [runtime]
> ii  libdb4.7         4.7.25-9          Berkeley v4.7 Database  
> Libraries [runtime]
> ii  libdb4.8         4.8.30-2          Berkeley v4.8 Database  
> Libraries [runtime]
> ii  libdb4.8-dev     4.8.30-2          Berkeley v4.8 Database  
> Libraries [development]

>
> That's just a matter of using a different soname whenever something
> changes in a backward incompatible way. Even for cases where the soname
> is fixed 'for political reasons' aka 'glibc', the issue is supposed to
> be handled transparently via symbol versioning.


THIS is an example of how to do it properly. But you can not
(currently) version virtual packages.

Regards

Noel
er Envite