http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22132
--- Comment #13 from Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org 2010-03-23 13:34:05 --- (In reply to comment #11)
But, this discussion is rather academic considering that mpg123 1.11 _is_ released now and the two sonames are fact now. When one has to deal with the legacy anyway, it wouldn't really help the wine project if mpg123 1.12 would include a dual-mode library, would it? It would still need to deal with possibilities of small-file libmpg123.so, large-file libmpg123.so, large-file libmpg123_64.so, and now possibly dual-mode libmpg123.so, which wouldn't add work, but also it wouldn't save any work:-/
It would help if it were fixed quickly enough, before it makes it into too many distros. We don't have to address the problem unless it becomes widespread. Of course once the current version will have been around for a while it will be too late.
Oh well, I guess libmpg123 will have to join the (sadly) long list of broken Linux libraries that need special hacks and workarounds. It's not the end of the world, it's just disappointing because we had discussed this before, and you seemed truly interested in fixing this properly, so I had hoped we would be able to get it right.