On Jan 20, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > This also implies that there is arguably an SONAME issue with this library > given that two versions of the library with the same SONAME don't provide > the same symbols, but I suspect there were really, really good reasons to > not change the SONAME. The upstream maintainers choose to provide backward compatibility to old binaries but not forward compatibility from old libraries. -- ciao, Marco
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