Bug#951209: transition: libgusb
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:24:42PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> libgusb is carrying in debian a patch[0] to revert/fix an after the fact
> change that was done upstream in the versioning of the symbols.
>
> I don't think we should/can carry this patch forever and due to the fact
> that the number of reverse-dependencies is quite limited, I was planning
> to simply drop it, but that would require to binNMU them to be
> certain they are using the correct version of the symbol.
>
IMO we should keep compatibility with the old version until the next
upstream SONAME bump. That might mean keeping this patch, or something
different, if we can add properly versioned aliases for the affected
symbols?
Cheers,
Julien
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