Wouter Verhelst, le ven. 07 févr. 2020 14:46:19 +0200, a ecrit: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 10:31:16AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Feb 2020 at 09:28:24 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Why not? This seems like the type of problem that SONAMEs are made for. > > > What am I missing? > > > > SONAMEs are set by the upstream developer in their build system > > Yes, I am aware of that, thank you. I meant to say that this feels like > something upstream could do a SONAME bump for. > > I'm wondering why they chose not to.
Because the ABI change is voluntary on the application build side. The existing libc.so is ABI-compatible with previously-built applications. Samuel
