On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:18:20 +0200 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:
> On 2011-07-16 15:15, Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:48:57 +0200 > > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > > > >> [...] > >> > >> I have checked the 1.5.8-3 -> 1.6.0-2 diff plus the news from > >> upstream[1] and I get the feeling the SONAME bump is unneeded. > >> > >> in config/version: > >> SO_MAJOR = $(GLEW_MAJOR).$(GLEW_MINOR) > >> [...] > >> LDFLAGS.SO = -shared -Wl,-soname=$(LIB.SONAME) [...] > >> > >> in config/Makefile.linux: > >> LIB.SONAME = lib$(NAME).so.$(SO_MAJOR) > >> > >> I suspect that upstream got the SONAME part wrong here and > >> $(GLEW_MINOR) is not supposed to be in the SONAME. Could you > >> please ask your upstream if they really intended to do a SONAME > >> bump for "minor bug fixes and some new extensions"? > > > > There indeed are two symbols removed besides the usual additions: > > > > -__glPNTrianglewesfATI > > -__glPNTrianglewesiATI > > > > That could be a valid reason I guess. > > > > Joost > > > > Thanks for checking up on that. Usually symbols like that are > intended as private symbols; perhaps upstream or you could work > upstream on hiding these symbols so they can rename/remove them > without having to bump the SONAME. > > I believe gcc's -fvisability or a linker script ought to do the trick. Indeed, upstream confirmed that a symbol type fix was reason to change the soname. Joost -- Joost Yervante Damad - http://damad.be/joost/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110720211500.30d22...@ancalagon.local.teluna.org
