On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> binNMU & recompilation: won't break if the app really works with this older > >> version and the lib must be ABI-compatible anyway. > > ... and this one is plainly wrong. binNMUs for rebuild against > > dependency libs which have changed ABI are not only possible but > > routinely done. Transition NMUs would be hard to get correct as well. > s/changed/extended/ > Any ABI change must be acompanied by a soname change. Er, that was exactly the point: binNMUs *are* done for soname-changing ABI changes. Hard-coding library dependencies is wrong, because the *names* of the needed libraries may change with a rebuild. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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