On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:26:33AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 04:40:20PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Upstream can change the ABI as much as they want without bumping the > > SONAME providing that the old interfaces are also present. It's entirely > > possible to end up with a situation where external binaries built > > against 1.0.1 won't run on 1.0.0 - the problem isn't limited to > > subpackages. > > > Sure. But in this case, upstream isn't changing the public ABI. > > It's a different level of mistake that's being practiced here. What difference does it make? Even if you stick to the public ABI you can't guarantee that a matching SONAME is sufficient. You need to depend on the package version you build against. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
