Re: Backport firmware updating stack to Jessie
Hi Gianfranco,
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna
<locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> some of the below libraries got a soname bump between jessie and stretch.
>
> I think you should get in touch with the respective maintainers, try to have them
> do the backports, and then try to mitigate the remaining packages.
> e.g. appstream-glib got a soname bump.
>
> I'm not happy in backporting stuff with a different soname (not even sure if allowed)
Errr, there are no rules against backporting packages with a different
soname compared to the corresponding versions in stable. I'm not even
sure how you would go about "mitigating" such changes, unless the
soname bumps were completely unnecessary to begin with. Would you care
to explain your rationale?
Regards,
Vincent
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