On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 03:54:35PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Hi debian-mentors, > > I'm working on packaging [vpp] which installs a number of shared libraries > that may want to be used by other Debian packages in the future. > > [vpp]: https://github.com/fdio/vpp/ > > However upstream just uses their release version in SONAME which doesn't > seem very useful. This suggests they don't know or don't care about ABI stability. > Is it good form to override this in the Debian package No, both because Debian-specific sonames are often a bad idea and because to do this correctly you need to track the ABI yourself. > or should I conform to what upstream is doing and deal with the fallout > once a reverse dependency is actually introduced and a new release comes > out? Ideally this should be fixed at the upstream side, unless they explicitly declare that they don't keep the ABI stable. -- WBR, wRAR
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