Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 09:37:26AM +0200, Michael Banck via Debichem-devel wrote: > I have complained about this here: > https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/pull/8765#issuecomment-5114438834 > > But I am wondering what to do here in case upstream is not planning to > bump their API, it has been a while and we shipped a few releases with > the dropped/renamed(?) symbols. > > I guess the options are: > > 1. Hold our nose, rebuild coot as requested and add versioned deps. > Are there any other reverse deps of librdkit1t64? I don't think so. > 2. Bump librdkit1t64 to librdkit1d (would that work? do we need > something like librdkit1z to sort after 1t64?). > 3. Drop the shared libraries, because we are dealing with scientific > software. > > > I'll see what the rdkit guys say first.
That was fast: |we do not guarantee ABI stability from one release to the next. One |should assume that dependencies that link against RDKit shared libs will |need to be rebuilt against a new RDKit release. Code changes should, |however, generally not be required. Any time that is the case, it will |be covered in the release notes So I guess we should go with option 3 above? Michael
