Hello Mattia, > Mattia Rizzolo has written on 23. Oktober 2017 at 11:10: > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 05:20:31PM +0200, Matthew Brincke wrote: > > Debian bug 854600 [2], I wonder why no one answered to the last post ...) > > My fault. > TBH, I totally forgot of that. I suppose I could have come up with > simple patch to retain ABI compatibility on my own, but I forgot and I > haven't than that.
that's likely a typo, what do you mean, please? I see from your Debian Maintainer Dashboard https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?mattia%40debian.org#todo that there are many to-do list entries, yet could you please accept my patch also? Could it be that the original one in the Debian bug report wasn't accepted for Jessie and later because of the ABI break? With that cured by my patch, wouldn't it be acceptable together? If not, please tell why not. > > I wonder why changing a private method is relevant to ABI at all, and > > (at least when you're still unconvinced ;-) to accept) would welcome your > > elucidation (if you have come across any, to date), please ... > > There is a more widespread problem in podofo where all symbols are > exported and therefore are formally part of the public ABI (even if not > intended to). Even if I suppose no program within Debian uses those > symbols (I could check, I haven't), I would not happily break the ABI > nonetheless. > Thanks for the explanation, there's one aspect I'm still curious about: I wonder why any C++ compiler, much less g++, would export any private symbols, as they aren't supposed to be accessible from anywhere (beyond their class and compilation unit) except for friend classes (can those reside in a different library/executable?), so maybe they should be marked PODOFO_LOCAL? > https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/mailman/message/35819398/ > (then, the lack of an actual bug tracker makes those request/reports > very hard to track, and I wouldn't be surprised if many missed it, or > even if they did completely forgot about it, as many other reports) > I concur, I'd also like a tracker for bug reports/feature requests, the sf.net one was probably closed because of spam, IIRC. Could maybe the bug reports be copied there by someone with the permissions for that? -- > regards, > Mattia Rizzolo > Best regards, mabri ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
