Hey, On 27/05/2009 Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Meurer <[email protected]> writes: > > so only one question remains for me: do I need to bump the soname or at > > least provide a symbols file for added library symbols? or can I simply > > ignore them as well? > > You should not bump the SONAME. You should bump the shlibs dependency > (as generated by dh_makeshlibs if you're using debhelper) to the new > version of the package, though, since binaries built against the new > library might not work with the old library. > > You could also provide a symbols file with appropriate version numbers > for when each symbol was introduced, but symbols files are optional (and > can be tricky with C++ since the symbol names can vary per architecture).
great, thanks a lot for your excellent help. i just uploaded mimelib1 1.1.4-1 to debian/unstable. greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
