retitle 611131 libmuparser0: ABI breakage without SONAME change On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 22:04:45 +0100, Elrond wrote:
> libmuparser0 1.32-1 (as shipped in testing) doesn't have a > versioned dependency, but should. See #610265 for an > example. > > According to > http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt > Section 2: > > "Shared library packages must include correct shlibs > files." > > this seems to be an RC bug. > It's worse than that. libmuparser appears to have broken its ABI between 1.28 (in lenny) and 1.32 (in squeeze), and again between 1.32 (in squeeze) and 1.34 (in sid). All that with no shlibs change, and with no SONAME and package name change. This is not acceptable for a shared library package. Cheers, Julien
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