> Just a datapoint: Debian 11 ("bookworm") will got to the first stage of freeze > [1] on January 12th, 2023. I guess 0.13.1 will be ABI compatible, so a release > end of this year should work. (As such changes would be allowed until February > 12th, aka Soft-Freeze.) > If SONAME needs to be bumped, it could get though to get it into bookworm, as > then the January 12th deadline becomes effective for log4cxx.
Just to note: the ABI check on gitlab currently fails, but that's because of a removal of a private static member. According to the KDE documentation[1], that's fine to do so it would not require an SONAME bump. [1]: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C%2B%2B -Robert Middleton