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Re: package with new soname: questions about .symbols and uploading



Hi Jakub,

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 20:48 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>, 2011-07-14, 20:34:
> >If you can confirm that the symbols file for your last version and this 
> >version match up perfectly, then the SONAME shouldn't have been bumped 
> >in the first place
> 
> Err, no, you can't conclude that ABI wasn't broken just from the fact 
> that symbol lists didn't change.

Err, of course you're right. I just had the logic inverted and of course
if the symbols don't match the ABI is broken - not the opposite. 

Yet my comment still stands that just putting a new SONAME disregarding
of ABI changes is not neccessarily a good thing IMHO.

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian

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