On 2015-06-15 08:04, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:26:26 -0700 > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> This is a recurring (anti-)pattern: >> >>> * an ABI-stable, high-level library, say libhigh0, links to a >>> lower-level library, say liblow0 >>> * we have an ABI transition from liblow0 to liblow1 >>> * liblow0 and liblow1 do not both have versioned symbols >> >> And this point is the root of the problem. >> >> When I'm in a particular tilting at windmills mood, I think we should >> just stop accepting new shared libraries in Debian that don't use >> symbol versioning, and make adding symbol versioning mandatory the >> next time the SONAME changes. > > With the proviso that "ignoring/fudging" a SONAME change to avoid this > step is an RC bug. A SONAME change going through NEW which doesn't > include symbol versioning should be a reject. > > The work to generate the symbols has already been done but needs a new > maintainer (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543640). > That would need to be fixed first. > >> [...]
To avoid confusing myself further, Russ and Neil, are you both talking about the "debian/symbols" files? I thought Russ might have been talking about "versioned symbols at DSO level" (e.g. symbol@LOW0 vs symbol@LOW1). ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557e6ea2.4090...@thykier.net