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Bug#785376: transition: nettle



On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 16:16:25 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> On Fri 15 May 2015 15.53.43, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Why does nettle not version its symbols?  For such a low level library
> > (especially one that seems to break its ABI regularly) that seems like a
> > fairly major oversight.
> 
> It does now, albeit perhaps not quite properly. (I have tried to explain to 
> upstream how you don't base the symbol versions on the SONAME, but in practice 
> I guess the important thing is that two incompatible symbols don't have the 
> same version string.)
> 
Ah, good.  I was looking at the version in jessie, which does not.

Thanks,
Julien

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