On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > * Kilian Krause <kil...@debian.org>, 2011-07-14, 20:34: >> >> If you can confirm that the symbols file for your last version and this >> version match up perfectly, then the SONAME shouldn't have been bumped in >> the first place > > Err, no, you can't conclude that ABI wasn't broken just from the fact that > symbol lists didn't change. > Indeed not. But in this case the ABI was not broken. In fact it is a stable library, with some new features and bugfixes the last years. I've checked the git history and since mid 2008 no ABI breaking changes were made (or I looked over them).
I like Jakub's suggestion of proposing a soversion number scheme upstream and adopting it in debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajop35nphgdxcqyu7g_apcnujnpfujh91ji57gybyzgq0vr...@mail.gmail.com
