Re: ROCm bump to 5.7 - rocm-smi-lib SOVERSIONs bump
On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 18:41 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
>
> On 2023-09-17 17:12, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > M. Zhou, on 2023-09-17:
> > > A very straightforward way to confirm this is to grep the pattern
> > > shared_mutex_init
> > > within the source code of its reverse dependencies. If there is
> > > no
> > > package directly calling this API, then it is fine to go ahead
> > > without SOVERSION bump.
>
> Generally: no, as this could still break binaries that a user
> compiled
> locally against the old version of the library, so a bump would still
> be needed.
A so version bump will also break the local built binaries. Because
the locally built binary is not managed by apt, so apt will feel free
to remove the old library and break the locally built binaries as well.
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