On Jan 20, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:

> This also implies that there is arguably an SONAME issue with this library
> given that two versions of the library with the same SONAME don't provide
> the same symbols, but I suspect there were really, really good reasons to
> not change the SONAME.
The upstream maintainers choose to provide backward compatibility to old 
binaries but not forward compatibility from old libraries.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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