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Re: freeze exception qpdf versioned symbols?



On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:00:26 -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> 
> I have added symbol versioning to qpdf (for which I am the maintainer
> and also upstream) in a not-yet-released upstream version.  Sometime
> soon, I will be releasing a new version of qpdf with a few ABI-breaking
> changes in preparation for qpdf becoming a dependency of cups-filters,
> resulting in work being done in a google summer of code project.  While
> there are currently no packages in debian that depend on qpdf, I thought
> it might be nice to get the symbol versions into debian before wheezy
> since the next release will not be binary compatible.  I have no plans
> to make any future ABI-breaking changes as I am committed to ABI
> stability.  In this case, however, it was unavoidable as there were
> functions that took int and needed off_t.  As long as I had to break it
> anyway, I also made one change to significantly simplify one rarely used
> operation for the user.
> 
Hi Jay,

with no reverse dependencies for libqpdf3 in the archive at this point,
I think this can wait until wheezy+1.

Cheers,
Julien

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