ibverbs-providers uses the private symbols of libibverbs1. Thus
libibverbs1 will not work with an old version version of
ibverbs-providers if the private symbol version is bumped.
Bump the ibverbs-providers version that libibverbs1 and
ibverbs-providers use the same major version. Also add this required
step to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/versioning.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
debian/control | 2 +-
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/versioning.md b/Documentation/versioning.md
index 3f19df55..eb5517ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/versioning.md
+++ b/Documentation/versioning.md
@@ -155,6 +155,24 @@ being used with libibverbs.
Due to this there is no reason to provide compat symbol versions for the
private ABI.
+When the private symbol version is bumped, the packaging files should be updated:
+
+```diff
+diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
+index 642a715e..8def05c9 100644
+--- a/debian/control
++++ b/debian/control
+@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Section: libs
+ Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
+ Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+ Recommends: ibverbs-providers
+-Breaks: ibverbs-providers (<< 16~)
++Breaks: ibverbs-providers (<< 17~)
+ Description: Library for direct userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/iWARP)
+ libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use RDMA
+ "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification and
+```
+
### Use of private symbols between component packages
A distribution packaging system still must have the correct dependencies
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c3b1aadc..642a715e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Section: libs
Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: ibverbs-providers
-Breaks: ibverbs-providers (<< 16~)
+Breaks: ibverbs-providers (<< 17~)
Description: Library for direct userspace use of RDMA (InfiniBand/iWARP)
libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use RDMA
"verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification and
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