Graham,
On 15 October 2021 at 13:34, Graham Inggs wrote: | > Yes. And I follow upstream. They didn't change :-/ | | Right, so please speak to your upstream. Dropping (or renaming) a Done. Looks like a 2.8 release is coming, so maybe the soname gets cleaned up there and we get to do (yet another full) transition (which is really the best way to handle this under changes). | symbol is changing the ABI in a backward-incompatible way, and they | need to bump the SONAME (or revert the change). | | This is not something Debian-specific, this is how shared objects in | Unix work [1][2]. Thanks for the pointers. As you may imagine, I actually already have come across this practice in my 26 years with Debian <wink>. Best, Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
