Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org) [070607 18:04]:
> On Thu, Jun  7, 2007 at 17:56:46 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> 
> > * Mike Hommey (mh@glandium.org) [070607 17:49]:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> > > > symbols MUST NEVER disappear!
> > > 
> > > Reality is that it happens.
> > 
> > Reality is that this build must fail with a proper warning, so that the
> > maintainer can decide if this is an excption and ok or whether he should
> > cluebat upstream about a what soname means.
> > 
> Reality is that libs export private symbols (not part of the API, and
> not used by anything), and a private symbol disappearing shouldn't force
> a SONAME change.

I would *really* like the maintainer to do an explicit ok to such an
situation, instead of *silently* assuming the best.


Cheers,
Andi
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