libutil in Debian

[Tijl Coosemans]

On 2013-07-09 19:13, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:05:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>>> 2013/7/9 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>:
>>>> With all respect to GNU and Debian the libutil in BSD appeared in 1988,
>>>> and the fact that GNU has taken that name in 1996 isn't reason for BSD
>>>> to change name.
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>>>
>>> Please note that my request is only based on practical grounds. It
>>> shouldn't be interpreted as implying endorsement on Glibc's use of
>>> libutil name.
>>>
>>> Historically, Glibc maintainer has been very difficult to deal with.
>>> This has affected non-Linux ports of Glibc as well. In contrast,
>>> FreeBSD community may or may not agree with proposals but is at least
>>> open to discuss things. This (rather than "fairness") is the reason I
>>> try to work things out here and not there.
>>>
>>> Please take it as a compliment rather than as offence :-)
>>>
>>>> Also, FreeBSD is just one of the BSD descendants, and all of them share
>>>> the libutil.
>>>
>>> So, I take it that the change I'm proposing could have disruptive effects.
>>>
>>> I do think there are long-term advantages for FreeBSD and the other
>>> BSD descendants in making it easy for their APIs to be deployed
>>> elsewhere. I mean, in terms of portability.
>>>
>>> However I'm clearly biased so I'd rather not insist on this. I leave
>>> it for you to judge.
>>
>> Renaming the libutil would break the ABI of the base system.
>> If you are introducing new interfaces to the other systems, you
>> can use a library name you find suitable.  But for the library
>> which is linked with significant number of existing binaries,
>> rename is not an easy option.
> 
> Can we use libmap.conf to create an alias for the new name on FreeBSD
> so that programs that link against libbsdutil, to pick an arbitrary
> name, can work and libbsdutil can be packaged for debian? This will
> allow things to be portable, while allowing repackaging by Debian.

Or just a libbsdutil.so symlink?

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