Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:53:38 Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 21:16 +0100, Dirk Müller wrote:
> > > On Thursday 04 November 2010, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> > > > It seems only Arch and openSUSE have 8.0, all of the rest uses v6 or
> > > > libjpeg-turbo.
> > >
> > > Thats correct, mainly due to LSB requirements, which we chose to
> > > ignore.
> >
> > I'm going to recommend that we stop ignoring LSB requirements.  There
> > are some very good reasons to comply with LSB and we fail when we don't.
> > This pixbuf loader bug is just one example.
>
> There are different  ways to fullfill LSB. For LSB it suffices if we have 
> libjpeg6 available so that applications build against it work. We can still 
> use libjpeg8 as default jpeg library. I'm assuming that v6 and v8 have 
> different sonames...

Both libraries may nevertheless end up in the same process if a
binary is linked against libjpeg6 as well as another distro provided
lib that links against libjpeg8. Result is a crash due to clashing
symbol names. IOW the application no longer works even though it
only links against LSB libraries.

cu
Ludwig

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