On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:35 PM Kaleb Keithley <kkeit...@redhat.com> wrote:
> <top post> > > Or, if I may be so bold— > > Convince the developers to use versioned symbols when they break the > API/ABI. > > This is the 21st Century, and we have solutions for this. It's not rocket > surgery. > > </top post> > That's actually not a problem most of the time. Some upstreams even unnecessarily bump their soversion. But maintaining two (or potentially more) versions of a library does create significant extra work for the packager. One example is the Coin package, currently Coin2/Coin3/Coin4 with all the alternatives gunk. Thanks, Richard
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