Re: [libgpiod] gpiod_line_get_value_bulk may be broken?

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 4:03 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > libgpiod2 (and any further bugfix to 1.6 for that matter) have the
> > problem of not being currently available as packages in the
> > distributions we use.
> >
>
> Be aware that the libgpiod2 library package in Debian is actually libgpiod v1
> - currently 1.6.3 in stable[1].
> Not sure about the story behind that - before my time.
> And no idea what they will package libgpiod v2 as, libgpiod-2??, but
> there will be confusion whatever they do.

It's because of the difference in ABI and API versions. Early on in
libgpiod v1.x development there was an ABI change that didn't affect
the API. Debian packages the shared library files with the .so version
suffix for some reason.

Bart

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