On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/28/2015 09:10 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: >> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 16:33 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: >>> My concern is that there's probably a lot of 3rd party apps that use >>> gnutls. Even if it's just as simple as rebuilding, it probably takes a >>> while for them to switch over. >>> I think it would make sense to keep ABI compatibility with the old >>> soname for one Fedora release, just to give 3rd parties time to >>> transition over. I could help making an ABI compat package for this if >>> you agree it makes sense? >> >> A compat library is a non-trivial task. In that particular ABI change >> there were changes in header definitions (e.g., rearrangement of >> enumerations), and functions which were either not safe to use under TLS >> 1.2, or related to RSA-EXPORT ciphersuites were removed [0]. It may be >> easier to ship both gnutls libraries as debian does because there are >> versioned symbols, but I'm not sure whether that's acceptable. I've not >> seen it in other packages in fedora. > > We have a bunch, for example see gtk2/gtk3 as an example how to do full > parallel installation and support parallel APIs over a long period of time. > > In this case, however, I think it makes sense to not do a full parallel > installation, but just enough to preserve the ABI compatibility and > exclude headers and anything else that could be used to link against it. > This makes sure that anything newly compiled is built with the new > gnutls and we don't lock ourselves into supporting gnutls28 forever. libpng15 is a good example of how to achieve the above. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
