Re: How painful is a lib(fuse) .so version bump for a distribution

[Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>]

Hi László,

On 9/26/24 21:12, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM Bernd Schubert
> <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> I would like to ask how painful is a library (libfuse) .so for a
>> distribution?
>  In what sense? Upstream ABI breakages don't help, I wait for 3.17 at
> least if that helps - not upgrading it to middle versions.
> 
>> As you can see here https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/pull/1038
>> there are some arguments not to do so.
>> The pull request above explains why and adds even more breakage,
>> when we already have chance for that. But it would be good to
>> know how much trouble it is for a distribution.
>  Debian doesn't recompile dependent packages for new releases. Doing
> library transitions (due to new soname) is an everyday thing for us.
> The workflow is documented [1], I will not repeat it here. There are
> forty-two dependent packages that need to be rebuilt for such a case,
> not a big number. I'm open to schedule the transition if upstream
> changes the soname.

thank you very much! So no issue for Debian :)


Best,
Bernd