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Re: gcc 3.2 transition in unstable



Em Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:56:58 +0000, Eduardo Pérez Ureta <eperez@it.uc3m.es>
escreveu:

> But, I will support the transition if the Debian project officially states
> that this is the last API/ABI transition without changing the sonames.
> And the next other API/ABI change in KDE or other C++ program or even C
> program MUST change the sonames even if other distributions don't change the
> sonames when changing the API/ABI.
> 
> Will you support this proposal?

I'm not a soname expert, but if we change sonames now, maybe we'll end
up bein incompatible for more time we wished to be.... 

It seems to me that this 'breakage' would only be fixed when upstream
would change the soname, and that does not happen everyday. *But* this 
event could even be a problem, too, because our 'incompatible soname 
just for transition' may be the same as the 'new one' from upstream...
so the incompatibility would have to be maintained longer...

Simply sucks. Am I wrong?

[]s!


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