On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:41:57 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 08/12/2014 11:26 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 02/08/14 20:41, Bas Couwenberg wrote: > >> Updating GDAL from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0 involves a SONAME bump from > >> libgdal.so.1.17.1 to libgdal.so.1.18.0. > >> > >> Because the binary package name doesn't change, I don't know how to > >> format a Ben file to track this. > > > > Err. What? Are you bumping the SONAME without renaming the package? Why? Why > > isn't the package named after the SONAME as it should be? What am I missing? > > Sorry about creating such confusion by badly wording the issue. > > The SONAME doesn't change, it remains at libgdal.so.1, only the library > version changes. > > The package is named libgdal1h to differentiate it from its predecessor > libgdal1 after the reintroduction of internal symbols hiding for better > compatibility against mixing external geotiff and gdal. > > Because the libgdal exposes both C and C++ symbols, its reverse > dependencies need a rebuild to make sure they continue to work in case > they don't only use the stable C API but also the unstable C++ API. > > Does it make sense to you now? > It doesn't to me... You seem to be mixing up API and ABI, so I'm not sure what you're saying.
Cheers, Julien
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