On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > > There was a lot of background information missing from Policy, which in > > my opinion made it unnecessarily difficult to understand the motivation > > and implications of the various Policy requirements. Here's a first > > draft of a patch to add much more information about how shared libraries > > work, better motivate the requirements already present (and tighten some > > of the language), and add a should-level requirement to change the > > SONAME if the library ABI changes. > > > Objections, sections, or other review? > > Here's an updated version of this patch taking into account the various > review and wording suggestions.
Seconded with the small typo fix below: > + The <tt>SONAME</tt> and binary package name need not, and indeed > + normally should not, change if new interfaces are added but none > + are removed or changed, since this will not break binaries > + linked against the old shared library. Correct versioning of > + dependencies on the newer shared library by binaries that use > + the new interfaces is handled via > + the <qref id="sharedlibs-shlibdeps"><tt>shilbs</tt> s/shilbs/shlibs/ > + system</qref> or via symbols files (see > + <manref name="deb-symbols" section="5">). > + </p> Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Follow the Debian Revolution ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
