On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:25:21AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > 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? Yes, this is a backwards-incompatible ABI change. If libmysqlclient15 had been present in sarge, such a change without a rename of the library package would be a release-critical bug for etch; since it wasn't, it's only severity: important, but either way all packages built against the previous symbol versions would have a release-critical bug requiring a rebuild. And changing the package name is actually the easiest way to make sure that no RC-buggy reverse-dependencies are overlooked. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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