Re: Best practices for handling API (not ABI) breaks?
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of libsigc++-2.0, a typesafe callback library for
> C++. Upstream has just released a new version, 2.2, which preserves the
> version 2.0 ABI but is not source-compatible: programs that compiled
> against the 2.0 series will break with this new release. There are 114
> packages that depend on libsigc++-0, too many to do this just by bugging
> a few maintainers to recompile.
> What's the best practice for handling this situation?
As everyone seems to be busy with other things: I do not remember which, but I
seem to recall a package doing the following, and it seems to be a good idea:
- Package the new with a new name for the -dev package and the same name for
the library itself and
- prune the old library source package to only provide the headers and stick
them in oldlibs.
Then you can
- at some point, possibly very soon, bug the lintian maintainers to include a
warning for depending on it (there is a list, but it is not automatically
updated),
- finally, when you think the time has come, file bugs.
Kind regards
T.
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Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/
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