Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, you think a version digit or so is enough to encode everything >> there is to be known about a package? > Think of SONAMES in terms of APIs. Two packages providing a library with > the same SONAME must be API-compatible and remain API-compatible > throughout a distributions life-time. Actually, I think SONAME is supposed to promise ABI compatibility, which is not the same as API compatibility. But that's a marginal issue. The point I was trying to make is that a library can have a lot of behaviors that do not, and SHOULD NOT, involve breakage of its ABI contract; and yet can well impinge on its ability to play nice with other packages that are outside the scope of its ABI. regards, tom lane -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
