Package: libevent1 Version: 1.0b-1.1 Severity: normal I updated libevent1 from 0.8-2 to 1.0b-1.1 at 2005-04-12T23:15, and now I see my tinysnmp-agent 0.8.1 installation has not been working since. I get lines like this in syslog:
Apr 14 12:55:02 [tinysnmpd] recvfrom failed: Bad address Downgrading libevent1 back to 0.8-2 and restarting tinysnmpd fixed this. Comparing the versions of /usr/include/event.h from libevent-dev 0.8-2 and 1.0b-1.1, I see that structures have been changed incompatibly: struct event has new members ev_base and ev_pri, the functions pointed by recalc and dispatch in struct eventop now take an additional first parameter, and struct evbuffer has a new member misalign. I can only assume that these changes broke tinysnmpd. When you change the ABI like this, please change the soname of the shared library so that programs clearly fail to load rather than just randomly crash later, and please set up the shlibdeps so that dpkg and apt detect incompatibilities at install time. It would also be good to make the ABI-incompatible versions installable side by side, but that is not as important. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-kon.astalo.1 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libevent1 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
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