Headsup: new API breaking libgda on its way to rawhide

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 02:55:15 UTC 2008


Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> Christopher Aillon <caillon <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > On 01/25/2008 11:25 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > the API of
> > > libgda-report-3.0.so.3 has changed (but not the soname ???).
> > 
> > We should make sure that gets resolved upstream.
> 
> It's quite common for prerelease software. KDE 4.0 betas had lots of API/ABI 
> changes with the same soname (which is also the one used by the stable releases 
> now, the API and the ABI are actually frozen now, of course).

I've always thought it was better in a devel series to change the soname
the first time you break it, to whatever it will be when the ABI freezes.

Bill




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