Hello again, This is the third time I'm writing to debian-mentors. I don't know why nobody replied to my former mails, but maybe I didn't describe the problem good enough, or the answers to my questions where to obvious.
At packaging mimelib1 from standalone-source I patched the sources to use strncpy/strncat instead of strlcpy/strlcpy along with several other changes. Now I tried to check for binary compability with libmimelib1c2a packages from kdepim 3.5.9 sources. To do that, I compared the output of 'objdump -T /usr/lib/libmimelib.so.1 | grep \\.text | cut -b62-' Unfortunately there are differences. Now I simply don't know if these differences render the package binary incompatible, or whether they don't matter at all. The patches against mimelib sources don't change any struct or functions to my knowledge. Now what to do about it? should I simply bump the soname and binary package names (from 1 to 2) and request binNMUs for reverse depends? Or is there a way to keep ABI compability with the help of something like a symbols file? I attached the diff for output of objdump -T. diff is between the libmimelib1c2a package from kdepim 3.5.9 sources (debian/lenny), and my own standalone source package with no source changes other than strlcat/strlcpy -> strncat/strncpy. greetings, jonas --- objdump_sid_libmimelib1c2a_1.1.2_kde 2009-04-27 16:44:22.000000000 +0200 +++ objdump_sid_libmimelib1c2a_1.1.2 2009-04-28 15:00:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ _ZN7DwGroup5ParseEv _ZNK11DwPopClient17MultiLineResponseEv _ZN9DwHeaders18ContentDescriptionEv -strlcpy _ZN10DwBodyPartC2ERK8DwEntity _ZN10DwDateTime4InitEv _ZN13DwFieldParserC2ERK8DwString @@ -152,7 +151,6 @@ _ZN12DwNntpClient7ArticleEi _ZN9DwHeaders8AssembleEv _ZN10DwBodyPartaSERKS_ -mkstemps _ZNK11DwMechanism15_PrintDebugInfoERSo _ZN10DwUuencode11SetFileModeEt _ZNK7DwMsgId6DomainEv @@ -222,6 +220,7 @@ _ZNK8DwString4findEPKcm _ZN13DwMailboxList8CopyListEPK9DwMailbox _ZNK8DwString17find_first_not_ofEPKcmm +_ZN13DwFieldParserD1Ev _ZgtRK8DwStringS1_ _ZltPKcRK8DwString _ZN17DwDispositionType19DeleteParameterListEv @@ -230,6 +229,7 @@ _ZN13DwAddressListC2ERKS_ _ZN8DwStringD1Ev _ZplcRK8DwString +_Z17new_rep_referenceP11DwStringRep _ZN12DwBoyerMooreC2ERK8DwString _ZN9DwMessageaSERKS_ _ZN6DwBody5ParseEv @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ _ZN17DwRfc822TokenizerppEv _ZNK7DwGroup11MailboxListEv _ZNK9DwMailbox15CheckInvariantsEv +_ZNK8DwString2atEm _ZN7DwGroupC1Ev _ZN6DwBodyC1ERK8DwStringP18DwMessageComponent _ZN8DwStringD2Ev @@ -398,6 +399,7 @@ _ZN11DwMediaTypeC1ERKS_ _ZNK17DwDispositionType5CloneEv _ZltRK8DwStringPKc +_Z17delete_rep_safelyP11DwStringRep _Z10DwFinalizev _ZNK11DwParameter5CloneEv _ZN8DwString10TakeBufferEPcmmm @@ -550,7 +552,6 @@ _ZN7DwField15SetFieldNameStrERK8DwString _ZNK8DwString8max_sizeEv _ZN10DwBodyPartC2ERKS_ -strlcat _ZN15DwHeadersParser9NextFieldEP8DwString _ZN9DwMailboxD1Ev _ZNK8DwString12find_last_ofEPKcm @@ -606,6 +607,7 @@ _ZN9DwMailboxD2Ev _ZN11DwMechanism12EnumToStringEv _ZN8DwString7replaceEmmRKS_ +_ZN14DwEntityParserD1Ev _ZNK9DwHeaders10HasControlEv _ZN8DwString6resizeEmc _ZN8DwString6appendERKS_ @@ -722,9 +724,11 @@ _ZNK10DwDateTime15CheckInvariantsEv _ZN12DwNntpClient8PGetLineEPPcPi _ZN6DwTextD2Ev +_Z8mem_copyPKcmPc _ZN12DwNntpClient7ArticleEPKc _ZN11DwPopClient22PGetSingleLineResponseEv _ZNK9DwHeaders15HasDistributionEv +_ZN8DwString2atEm _ZN9DwMailboxC2Ev _ZN11DwMediaType10SetTypeStrERK8DwString _ZN18DwMessageComponentC2Ev @@ -872,7 +876,6 @@ _ZNK9DwMailbox8FullNameEv _ZNK9DwHeaders12HasInReplyToEv _Z9DwToCrEolRK8DwStringRS_ -_ZN8DwStringixEm _ZN7DwMsgIdC1Ev _ZN12DwNntpClientC2Ev _ZNK8DwEntity4BodyEv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org