On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2016 17:49, Rich Freeman wrote: >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 >> >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely >> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this >> kind of breakage. > > brain dead is being kind to folks with non-functioning brains... > > I'm now seriously considering the libressl folks might have a point. >
You mean the project that forked openssl, changed the APIs and ABIs, and also kept the same SONAMEs for "compatibility?" We can see how well that worked with libav... -- Rich
