On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 15:05 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > >> There will be a similar problem in the docker images, unless you're >> suggesting that everyone use Ubuntu-in-docker-on-Fedora/RHEL. > > True, but it becomes the responsibility of the container creator, not > "Fedora". > > Anyways, I of course come from the perspective of glib maintainer, and > we're already committed to "Compatibility level 1" starting from Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 6, meaning there will be no ABI breaks for 3 major > releases. (See https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/119073 - this is > transitive from the gtk2 stability ). > > I think it would also make sense to enforce these in Fedora (or really, > enforce them upstream, which is where I do it). IMO this is made considerably more complicated by the fact that libtool's version-info doesn't really work on ELF systems -- there are lots of libraries where, for example, .so.6 would be a perfectly fine replacement for .so.7, but the system doesn't know that. In principle, it would be possible for new versions to package symlinks from the old .so.n files. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
