Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6
- To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
- Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-lsb@lists.debian.org, dickey@invisible-island.net
- Subject: Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6
- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:09:14 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:40:14PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> >> .... from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition.
> >
> > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then.
>
> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this
> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions?
> i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so
> that all apps that linked against libncurses.so.6 still continue
> to work without recompilation?
Or even better, make it totally ABI compatible, thus not even bump the
SO version.
Mike
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