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Hello Jörg

> with the upstream release 1.0.27 are some libraray functions
> are removed.

Can you please share also some examples of such libraries?
Are them public or private?


> According to Debian Policy 8.6.2, renaming of the SONAME and the
> library package name is possible for non-backwards compatible ABI
> changes.
> 
> As the maintainer of this package, I object to the withdrawal
> of my changes by the NMU in version 1.0.27-3.1.
> 

this seems legit, if you can prove that the ABI changes are affecting
the public library, I would say that a SONAME change is appropriate.

So far, everybody failed at it...

/me is not RT member, no hat on his head

For sure, we should cleanup symbols file wrt the public/private stuff inside 
them
(cfr: #911597)

Gianfranco

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