On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Upstream really dropped the ball on this. When I'm updating packages > I certainly don't carefully review all their ABIs and SONAMEs. > Without some kind of automatic QA tool it would be a pretty big > undertaking. I might go see if there is such a tool though, maybe > that might be a good outcome if such a tool exists. >
I recall reading about such a tool: http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker I haven't tried it out, but I would be curious to see whether it would have caught this case.
