Re: rpm handling of new library symbols

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Julian Sikorski wrote: > Is that the same as bumping soname whenever new symbols are introduced? No, it's not. It's better. Symbol versioning is per symbol, not per shared object, so only the new symbols get new versions and it's all backwards- compatible. Unfortunately, not all targets support s

Re: rpm handling of new library symbols

2013-01-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 05.01.2013 18:37, Miloslav Trmač pisze: >> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Julian Sikorski >> 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 be

Re: rpm handling of new library symbols

2013-01-06 Thread Julian Sikorski
W dniu 05.01.2013 18:37, Miloslav Trmač pisze: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Julian Sikorski 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 h

Re: rpm handling of new library symbols

2013-01-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Julian Sikorski 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 b

rpm handling of new library symbols

2013-01-05 Thread Julian Sikorski
Hi list, 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