[Bug 197198] Review Request: ntop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 02:26 -0400, bugzilla at redhat.com wrote:
> Please do not reply directly to this 
Now that bugzilla seems to be broken, it seems to have swallowed my
reply ;)

> Summary: Review Request: ntop
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197198
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> ------- Additional Comments From michael at knox.net.nz  2006-07-07 02:18 EST -------
> (In reply to comment #29)

> > * upstream uses the -release for libtool using the package version,
> > this is wrong in general, since it trigggers a soname change even
> > when the abi don't change, however those libraries are not meant to
> > ne linked against, so if the *.so that don't have the release within
> > their names are not distributed it is right.
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> I am not sure I follow you here. Could you clarify? 

c.f. info libtool 'Release numbers'

Upstream is using -release, which is a bad idea.

Ralf