Re: how to check for binary compability?
Hey,
On 27/05/2009 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> writes:
> > so only one question remains for me: do I need to bump the soname or at
> > least provide a symbols file for added library symbols? or can I simply
> > ignore them as well?
>
> You should not bump the SONAME. You should bump the shlibs dependency
> (as generated by dh_makeshlibs if you're using debhelper) to the new
> version of the package, though, since binaries built against the new
> library might not work with the old library.
>
> You could also provide a symbols file with appropriate version numbers
> for when each symbol was introduced, but symbols files are optional (and
> can be tricky with C++ since the symbol names can vary per architecture).
great, thanks a lot for your excellent help.
i just uploaded mimelib1 1.1.4-1 to debian/unstable.
greetings,
jonas
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