Re: obsoleting shlibs - what's the plan

[uwe%netbsd.org@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> I just updated to 4.99.58 from 4.99.24 (!, long story, disk too small to
> build).  Mostly things are working fine.
> 
> I updated using BUILD-NetBSD from etcmanage, and then ran 'postinstall
> fix obsolete'.  It deleted libraries that I think it shouldn't have:
> 
>        Removed obsolete file /usr/lib/libroken.so.12.3
[...]
> These are previous major versions of kerberos libraries.
[...] 
> So, I think these shouldn't have been marked obsolete, and that in
> general that we should not obsolete previous major shlibs, just minor
> ones (e.g., if .so.3.1 arrives we can remove .so.3.0, but not .so.2.1).

You are correct, that's a bug.  Old heimdal shared libs shouldn't have
been marked obsolete.

SY, Uwe
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