upgrade problem

[Ulrich Drepper]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> I'm not saying the soname should change. I'm saying that maybe a fall back
> This is fixed by restarting the application, but that's a nightmare for
> distributions concerned about upgrades (and asking the user to restart is
> not the best face you want to show, being the Linux is touted for not
> beeding reboots except for new kernel's).
> 
> Does this clarify?

Irrelevant.  The file names cannot be changed since this would mean
you have to keep around all old versions for statically linked applications.

Deal with it.  There is no problem finding out which programs are
affected and whether they are running or not.

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