Re: Unannounced soname bump (Rawhide): poppler (libpoppler.so.73 -> libpoppler.so.74)

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Tom Hughes wrote:

> On 28/03/18 15:47, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
>> Personally I think the better question is why popplar has to break
>> it's ABI so often? I mean it's not like the PDF spec is evolving that
>> quickly, why is it so terrible and unstable that is has to change so
>> much? I mean I'm sure I've seen java script implementations that have
>> less churn than it!
> 
> The soname seems to be bumped for every version, probably without
> actually trying to analyse whether anything has actually changed.

In fairness, poppler provides both stable/public APIs and an 
unstable/private(ish) one.  One guess what texlive is using.

-- Rex
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