Greetings! Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le mercredi 22 septembre 2004 � 13:53 -0400, Camm Maguire a �crit : > > Greetings! > > > > What say ye all to the below -- should I try to push 7.1 out with the > > same soname into Sarge ASAP? > > I'd say it's a bad idea. The release team strongly advised the > developers against ABI changes - even .shlibs version bumps. > Point taken, but I just wanted to emphasize that from my experience it is very highly likely that the abi has in fact not changed -- its just that upstream hasn't explicity tested to confirm. I will try to look at the header interface files they refer to in upstream cvs to see when the last change was. > When there are such binary incompatibilities between every single > version of a library, the best solution is probably to change the SONAME > and package name between each versions, just like for libhdf5 of > libdirectfb. It's a hassle to rebuild all depending packages, but this > way you're sure there's no problem. This is definitely a possible policy. What do you think of a slightly looser policy -- to bubmp the Debian-specific soname when any of the headers or related files have changed between releases? Upstream mentioned three specific files in the original note. Take care, > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ > : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
