Hi Jordi,

> One Debian unstable user upgraded mailutils but not libmailutils8, and
> found out some symbols were dropped (or renamed?) in libmailutils,
> breaking ABI without a soname bump.

Thanks for reporting this!

> What's the best way to solve this? Just bump the soversion to 9 in the
> next release, or have a fixup tarball that reintroduces these functions
> in some way?

I'd opt for the former solution. The only difficulty is that I cannot
say for sure when I will be able to roll the new release. Hopefully
within a couple of weeks. Is it OK?

Regards,
Sergey

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