Re: [Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@lam-mpi.org>] Re: LAM: LAM/MPI v7.1 released

[Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>]

Greetings!

OK, I've gone through the following per the recommendation of
upstream: 

mpi.h
lam_config.h
include/mpi2cxx/*

and there appears to be nothing in the diff between 7.0.6 and 7.1
which would break backward binary compatibility in this case.

I think I should release 7.1 with the same soname=4.  If anyone
strenuously objects, I'll be happy to reconsider, but please let me
know ASAP so we don't miss our chance to migrate the latest into
Sarge.

Take care,

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:04:47AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > When there are such binary incompatibilities between every single
> > > version of a library, the best solution is probably to change the SONAME
> > > and package name between each versions, just like for libhdf5 of
> > > libdirectfb. It's a hassle to rebuild all depending packages, but this
> > > way you're sure there's no problem.
> > 
> > This is definitely a possible policy.  What do you think of a slightly
> > looser policy -- to bubmp the Debian-specific soname when any of the
> > headers or related files have changed between releases?  Upstream
> > mentioned three specific files in the original note.
> 
> IMHO this would be sufficient. Let's face it, lam/mpi isn't quite as widely
> used as libstdc++ -- so we don't have to go multiple versions "just because
> we can".
> 
> Just my $0.02.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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