Julian Sikorski wrote:

> W dniu 05.01.2013 18:37, Miloslav Trmač pisze:
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Julian Sikorski <beleg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> a bug was recently filed against gnumeric [1], in which the program
>>> refused to run due to user not having updated his whole package set and
>>> a symbol being missing in the older libgsf he had installed.
>>> How are such issues supposed to be handled? Surely, manually introducing
>>> a versioned dependency for every library is going to be painful. Given
>>> that soname bump is required only for symbols removal/change, is it that
>>> if someone cherry-picks updates, then he/she keeps all the pieces in
>>> case something breaks? Thank you for the input in advance.
>> This is handled automatically for shared libraries that use ELF symbol
>> versioning and introduce the new symbols in a new version: the
>> automatically-generated provides/requires include the ELF symbol
>> version.
>> 
>> If the library does not use symbol versioning, manually adding a
>> versioned dependency is all that's left I'm afraid.
>>     Mirek
>> 
> Is that the same as bumping soname whenever new symbols are introduced?

Not the same, but that's another approach.

-- rex

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