On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 15:47, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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. Yeah, but we have the Debian-like lib packaging with the package name following the lib version. The build system will not allow to have different versions. Kay -- 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
