Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the interface doesn't change (so that the new version of the library
> is binary backwards-compatible with the old version, even if it's not
> forwards-compatible, i.e. new APIs were added or new capabilities were
> added to existing APIs), the version number shouldn't be incremented and
> the soname shouldn't change.
Yeah, the fact that libpcap 0.9 uses a new soname in Debian is
accidental, I assumed it wouldn't be compatible (like 0.8 vs. 0.7) but
it turns out that it is. Not a big deal...
By the way, icheck has the following to say about 0.9 vs. 0.8, it might
come in handy to whoever will be writing the changes file:
| API addition: typedef direction_t is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:123:
| typedef enum
| {
| D_INOUT = 0,
| D_IN = 1,
| D_OUT = 2,
| } direction_t;
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_dump_fopen is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:256:
| extern pcap_dumper_t * pcap_dump_fopen(pcap_t *, FILE * fp);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_dump_ftell is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:258:
| extern long int pcap_dump_ftell(pcap_dumper_t *);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_fopen_offline is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:217:
| extern pcap_t * pcap_fopen_offline(FILE *, char *);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_inject is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:231:
| extern int pcap_inject(pcap_t *, void const *, size_t);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_nametollc is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap-namedb.h:71:
| extern int pcap_nametollc(char const *);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_nametoportrange is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap-namedb.h:68:
| extern int pcap_nametoportrange(char const *, int *, int *, int *);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_sendpacket is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:232:
| extern int pcap_sendpacket(pcap_t *, u_char const *, int);
|
| API and ABI addition: identifier pcap_setdirection is new
| is now defined at /usr/include/pcap.h:227:
| extern int pcap_setdirection(pcap_t *, direction_t);
|
| ABI is not backward-compatible
| API is not backward-compatible
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