Re: Listing dependencies with specific versions
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> Cyril, we've had this discussion before - merely adding symbols does
> NOT require a SONAME bump.
We are not talking about SONAME bumps, but shlib bumps.
> Take a look at glib2.0, libgtk+2.0 and libqof1 - symbols are added all
> the time and all that is needed is a versioned build-depends and a
> versioned runtime shlib dependency.
Right.
> I doubt that - merely adding a new symbol is NOT a bug, let alone
> release-critical.
Right, but not bumping shlibs at the same time is an RC bug AFAIK.
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bye,
pabs
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