On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 17/09/2021 11:48, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Is upstream wrong?  Otherwise there shouldn't be anything to take care
> > of?
> 
> I think that even minor changes in ABI need a soversion bump.
> 
> Upstream developers decided to hide internal symbols from ELF/DLL export
> tables. I agree that these symbols are part of the private API and shouldn't
> be used by dependent projects.
> 
> As per Fedora packaging guidelines, I've to announce the API/ABI changes.

*Provided* the symbols they've hidden from export were never in any
public header file in /usr/include, then I think they are justified in
hiding them without changing soname and considering it not an API/ABI
change.

Regards,
Daniel
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