Bug#951209: transition: libgusb
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 20:19:12 +0100 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
wrote:
> 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?
I'm not exactly sure how to do that TBH
FTR, a more persistent link to the file was talking about in my initial
mail
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libgusb/-/blob/80d3862872ff72b9cf10c90959973baf9755c7e9/debian/patches/revert-versioning.patch
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