[SSSD] ding-libs: symbol versioning is necessary

Lukas Slebodnik lslebodn at redhat.com
Fri Feb 21 10:00:00 UTC 2014


On (09/01/14 15:39), Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>On Thursday 2014-01-09 14:42, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>
>>Sorry, but in my book changing the SONAME for a backwards compatible
>>change is not ok [...] I do, maintaining a stable SONAME is
>>important [...] The only solution for backwards compatible changes
>>that require a new symbol with the same soname is to have an
>>explicit version dependency in the package management system. That
>>can be enforced only at build time.
>
>Hey, keeping SONAME and doing symbol version maps was my preferential
>pick as well, but Lukas Slebodnik did not want to. Come on, is it
>really _so much_ work to maintain a symbol version file? How many
>symbols get added anyway?
>
>Just give me a clear answer already. Will sssd address the issue,
>or is it going to be a "f**k you" to downstream packagers?
>
You started this discussion about version dependency in ding-libs.
There is opportunity to be active and help us with testing and reviewing patch.
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/sssd-devel/2014-February/018553.html

Any comments are appreciated.

LS



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