Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 05.01.2013 18:37, Miloslav Trmač pisze: >> 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 >> > Is that the same as bumping soname whenever new symbols are introduced? Not the same, but that's another approach. -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
