Bug#630201: transition: liblzma 5
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:56:55 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I would like to upload liblzma5 to unstable, so liblzma in wheezy can
> match the upstream ABI.
>
> Relative to what's currently in sid, this involves a soname bump
> (2 → 5), introduction of versioned symbols, and some changes to the
> padding at the end of structs. liblzma never looks at this padding
> so even by simulating the worst case (liblzma2 and liblzma5 being
> indirect dependencies of a single binary through different paths,
> resulting in the two versions sharing a process image) I haven't been
> able to make it cause any trouble for partial upgrades. And I'm not
> aware of any packages that would trigger that worst case.
>
I think this should be ok at this point, feel free to upload to sid.
Thanks for bearing with us for this long...
Cheers,
Julien
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