On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 01:25:52PM +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On 03/21/2014 01:18 PM, Neil Horman wrote: > > Can anyone point me to fedora packaging documentation that discusses > > the need for API stability in packaged shared libraries? I'm sure we > > have some requirement that APIs in a DSO need to be versioned and > > maintained through a release, but for the life of me I'm unable to > > find it. > > Hi Neil, > > The Updates Policy for stable releases > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases) > says this about ABIs, APIs: > ABI changes in general are very strongly discouraged, they force > larger update sets on users and they make life difficult for > third-party packagers. > [...] > Package maintainers MUST: > Avoid Major version updates, ABI breakage or API changes if > at all possible. > > Michal Thanks Michal! Neil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
