versioned symbols in shared libraries (upstream != Debian)

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

Hello

During the last month I have build my libmysqlclient15 with
shared symbols that looked in "objdump -T" like:
  0013a154 g    DO .bss   00000004  MYSQL_5.0   my_dont_interrupt
  00026d70 g    DF .text  000002fa  MYSQL_5.0   my_strntoll_8bit
  00015730 g    DF .text  00000025  MYSQL_5.0   my_no_flags_free

Now MySQL finally closed my bug report to them and provides symbols
in their upstream source. Sadly they look like:
  0000f280 g    DF .text  0000000b  libmysqlclient_15 mysql_row_tell
  0000f4d0 g    DF .text  00000043  libmysqlclient_15 mysql_escape_string
  0000da30 g    DF .text  000000e1  libmysqlclient_15 mysql_slave_send_query

This is bad, right? If I would just use them all the previously built
binaries would stop linking and if I stay with mine, no non-Debian
dynamically linked binary would run on Debian, right? Any ideas?

bye,

-christian- (please Cc me)