On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Julian Sikorski <belegdol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> a bug was recently filed against gnumeric [1], in which the program refused
> to run due to user not having updated his whole package set and a symbol
> being missing in the older libgsf he had installed.
> How are such issues supposed to be handled? Surely, manually introducing a
> versioned dependency for every library is going to be painful. Given that
> soname bump is required only for symbols removal/change, is it that if
> someone cherry-picks updates, then he/she keeps all the pieces in case
> something breaks? Thank you for the input in advance.
This is handled automatically for shared libraries that use ELF symbol
versioning and introduce the new symbols in a new version: the
automatically-generated provides/requires include the ELF symbol
version.
If the library does not use symbol versioning, manually adding a
versioned dependency is all that's left I'm afraid.
Mirek
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