On Wednesday, July 02, 2014 20:57:04 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Scott, > > On 02.07.2014 19:52, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On July 2, 2014 12:30:06 PM EDT, Andreas Cadhalpun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02.07.2014 13:23, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >>> On 2014-07-01 22:37:33 [+0200], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > >>>> Assuming they would allow it, this would probably not make it into > >> > >> 7.6, > >> > >>>> which is coming during the next weekend. > >>>> First we have to fix things in unstable and then wait for them to > >> > >> transition > >> > >>>> to testing. > >>>> And then we would have to coordinate stable updates of all affected > >>>> reverse-dependencies together with clamav... > >>> > >>> Puh. The current clamav version shouldn't make it into stable as-is. > >> > >> Indeed. As that API change is a serious bug, I think we should > >> cherry-pick the SONAME bump and upload to experimental as soon as > >> possible, so that the new package libclamav7 can go through binary-NEW. > > > > Only if we're sure there won't be other ABI breaking changes in the next > > release. We might be better off just to use breaks to manage the > > transition. > We can never be sure that there won't be more API changes, but I don't > think any are planned. Anyway the API changed incompatibly and so the > soversion should be bumped. > If we use breaks now, we'll have to make another transition for the next > upstream release, although probably the ABI won't change. > And if there really is another change, we could also handle that > transition with breaks. > > So I don't see what would be better, if we postpone the soversion bump.
Fortunately this is probably OBE due to the change they just made. I think we can fix this and get back to the old API/ABI, so no concerns for 0.98.4. Scott K _______________________________________________ Pkg-clamav-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-clamav-devel
