Hi Juanjo! Why didn't I wait for ten more minutes before sending my previous mail? I'd have seen you already fixed it, thank you! On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:55:30 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote:

Thank you. If I could say more, I really prefer full dates (YYYYMMDD), but this is not the scope of this bug report.

That is too large and the shorter version can be directly used in sonames

Good point.

However, if my words above are correct, I can split ecl_1-1 into two packages, libecl [2] and ecl [3], the latter depending on the former. This means that if the standalone program I wrote works just with the shared library, I don't need to install the other internal libraries and the compiler.

This is true.

Could this improve the situation?

As I said, the problems are not on our side, so I presume this question goes to the bug originator :-)

Thus me, also one of the Debian maintainers, read below ;-)

As mentioned in the previous email / bug answer, this change has been committed to ECL already.

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:38:13 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

Last change in CVS ( 2008/09/09 )

- We switch to an Ubuntu-like versioning system, based on $(year).$(month).x where "x" is 0 for a release or any higher number for a patched version.

I'll play the Devil's advocate here, sorry: does this mean that 0.1.0 will be SONAME-compatible with 0.1.1?

- In Unix-type systems, ECL now installs with a "soname" and using versioned directory names, such as /usr/lib/ecl-8.9.0, /usr/lib/libecl.so.8.9, etc

Is a new release planned soon or should I package today's CVS snapshot to close this bug? This change not only fixes this problem, but it also lets different ECL versions be installed simultaneously. CLISP provides a similar situation, but we (i.e. Debian) decided to ship only one version. What's your advice here? I'd prefer keeping the situation as it is and consistent with CLISP: Debian ships one version, whenever it's possible the latest release.

This should be more than enough.

Again, thank you not only for the fix, but mainly for the time you spent discussing it, I really appreciate. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca