Hi Kay, > > The _major_ number of libudev has to be increased, because several symbols > > were removed (e.g. udev_device_new_from_devpath()) from the library in the > > changes from 128 to 129. > > > > Which means, that every application, which linked to a udev version prior to > > udev-129 has to be recompiled to work with newer libudev versions and > > unfortunately there is now no way to install compat libs anymore. > > Right, we do not bump the major number as long as it is experimental. > > It's not only the API which has changed in earlier versions, also the > logic behind it, so it would not really work with compat libs anyway. > The usual way to do compat libs by taking the code from old packages > will also not work, because the lib is tied to the running udev > version. Older libs are unlikely to work with a new udev running. you don't need to bump the package version number. Just bump the .so name/version of the library. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
