2014/1/16 Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net>: > On Thu, 16.01.14 18:27, Michael Biebl (mbi...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> >> 2014/1/16 Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net>: >> > On Thu, 16.01.14 17:33, Michael Biebl (mbi...@gmail.com) wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> 2014/1/16 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl>: >> >> > I am also a bit worried about so-bumps: currently we have very nice >> >> > backwards >> >> > compatibility, without any API removals. -daemon, -id128, -journal, >> >> > -login >> >> > are all still .so.0. But libsystemd-bus (libsystemd now) is much harder >> >> > to >> >> > keep this way, among other reasons, because it's much bigger, and much >> >> > more >> >> > experimental. >> >> >> >> I'd prefer if the libraries were kept separate, at least for the ones >> >> for which it is possible without it beeing to painful. >> >> At least libsytemd-daemon should imho be kept separate with a stable >> >> API/ABI. >> >> We already have 10+ reverse dependencies of that library in Debian and >> >> the list is constantly growing. >> > >> > Sure, but as mentioned, if we end up merging libsystemd-daemon.so into >> > libsystemd.so, both would be parallel installable and would not result >> > in symbol clashes. Thus, the transition should be smooth... (Also note >> > that it would still be the same scope, so if you are concerned about >> > pulling in incompatible code into non-systemd boots, there's shouldn't >> > be a problem) >> >> Well, since you plan to drop the .pc files I wouldn't really call the >> transition smooth, as every package would need sourceful changes to >> their configure check to now use a different .pc file name. > > Well, it can certainly continue to use and build against the old version > for a while, no?
We'd have to make pre-systemd-209 and systemd-209 packages co-installable (different source package names etc.) to be able to continue to provide the old version. That is not really fun. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
