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Re: libdrm: Changes to 'ubuntu'



On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 22:33:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-05-14 22:16 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 21:16:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> You will get interesting segfaults in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (and
> >> other rdepends of libdrm-nouveau1, if there are any) after this ABI
> >> break without soname bump.  Anyone who has a bright idea what to do
> >> about that problem?
> >> 
> > Two solutions, afaict:
> > Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (<< some-version)
> > or changing the package name to libdrm-nouveau1with2.6.34abi (well, ok,
> > not that one, but you get the idea).
> 
> I had tried something like this and failed because libtool does not
> accept non-numeric versions.
> 
I meant changing the package name without changing the actual soname.

> > There probably aren't any other rdepends at this point since we don't
> > build the 3d driver yet, so Breaks seems easiest.
> 
> Yes, we can probably get away with that.  Would also be good to bump the
> version of all symbols in libdrm-nouveau1.symbols to ensure that
> packages built against the new libdrm are not accidentally used with an
> older version of libdrm-nouveau1.
> 
Yes, if the package isn't renamed then that will be necessary.

Cheers,
Julien

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