Re: Massive symbol file changes in dpkg-gensymbols
On 2024-11-24 19:16, Mo Zhou wrote:
>> With this implying that, should symbols change between versions, our
>> dpkg-gensymbols would catch this, and an incompatible change would
>> trigger a SOVER bump.
> As long as we are hiding the internal APIs that are not intended to
> be used by any external code, I see no necessity to bump the SOVERSION --
> it wastes human time and there is no harm to hide symbols that nobody
> should use and has never used.
Agreed. I should have qualified, I meant "should _external_ symbols
change". We'd still detect that via dpkg-gensymbols. So the version
script hides, but it does not hide too much.
Best,
Christian
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