On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 12:48:03AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I would like to ask how painful is a library (libfuse) .so for a
> > > distribution?
> > 
> > Not at all, if all revdeps build fine with the bumped version.
> > 
> > "I'm assuming that distributions do not recompile packages against a new
> > library version, unless absolutely needed - if I'm right library ABI
> > changes cause silent issues." sounds very wrong to me. We always
> > recompile packages against a new soname when that is uploaded, and as we
> > try to keep packages uptodate a new soname is normally uploaded every time
> > it's bumped by the upstream.
> 
> But we *don't* rebuild when there is not an soversion bump, so the
> previous unintended ABI changes in libfuse3-3 may well have caused
> silent issues for its reverse-dependencies.

Right, when read like that it's correct.

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