Re: gcc 3.2 transition in unstable
On 2003-01-06 18:53:45 +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 18:26, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:56:58PM +0000, Eduardo Pérez Ureta wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I'm also opposed to this form of transition like other Debian developers.
> > > I would like to see all the sonames changed.
> >
> > Then IMHO you should request upstream library maintainers to bump their
> > sonames whenever API/ABI breaks. That is the root cause of the problem.
>
> Upstream has no way to know that you'll compile with a specific compiler
> version. Upstream API is not the problem. Compiler changes that force
> ABI changes are the problem here, so far I understand these issues.
Sure, but some libraries like KDE change API/ABI without changing
sonames, and sonames should also change in that case.
In the gcc-3.2 transition the main problem to not change sonames is to
keep compatibility with other distributions that are not changing
sonames in their gcc-3.2 transition.
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