* Robert Relyea: > On 12/6/21 7:11 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> Florian Weimer wrote: >>> That's not actually true, though, and it does not make much sense. If >>> upstream commits to an ABI, versioning is not even required technically. >> Hardly any upstream actually commits to an ABI *forever*. Even if the ABI >> has not changed for 10 years, that does not mean that at some point a new >> ABI will not be implemented. Even glibc has a soversion (which has not >> changed for years, but it has one). > > Upstream NSS commits to changing the major version number (which is > included in the library name) if it were to change the ABI. ABI breaks > are fixed upstream when they occur, and there is a CI abi scanner > which runs on all upstream commits to identify ABI issue. The current > ABI has been stable for 2 decades now. > > I don't know of any other package that maintains that level of > commitment. There were/are issues around the size of global data: using the external array SSL_ImplementedCiphers[] directly should be deprecated <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201900> Add accessor functions for SSL_ImplementedCiphers <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496993> ELF targets with copy relocations do not allow shared objects to change the size of exported symbols. (I have a build of GCC 2.7.2.3 from December 1998 that still works, but to some degree that's easier: it's just turning one text file into another. Admittedly I had to fix a glibc regression likely probably before 2000 to get them working again.) But my point is that the rule about soname versioning seems overly strict. Downstream-specific sonames are very poor substitute for upstream ABI management. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
