On 09/07/16 20:42, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > In fact, this could be a new plan. If we double down on Flatpak, then we > could simply not bump soname / major version, leave it at 4, break ABI > every point release, and have the ".6-multiple" releases be LTS releases > which are "maintained more than most".
Speaking as a distribution (Debian) developer: breaking the ABI without bumping the SONAME is really frustrating to deal with in distributions; so if there will be anything that uses Gtk and is ever distributed in ways other than Flatpak and similar things, please manage the Gtk SONAME correctly. gnome-shell, gnome-control-center and gnome-settings-daemon, together with their forks in GNOME derivatives like Cinnamon, are among prominent packages that depend on Gtk but should be part of the distribution's release process, even in a possible future where ordinary apps are exclusively distributed via Flatpak. (I don't think that future has arrived yet, in any case.) In many cases Debian patches libraries that don't have a SONAME upstream to introduce its own, with an appended "d" to indicate they are Debian-specific, like the libstemmer.so.0d used by our current version of Tracker. The Autotools make this more difficult than it ought to be, but it's often still less disruptive than not being able to parallel-install. -- Simon McVittie Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/> _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
