[CLN-list] CLN 1.2.1 -- silent ABI change?

[Alexei Sheplyakov]

Dear Richard,

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:27:59PM +0200, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:

> Anyway, I have two options now:
> 
> a) Release CLN-1.2.2 with changed soname, although the ABI did not 
> change wrt. CLN-1.2.1.

I think this is the only sane thing to do.
 
> b) Just ignore it and release CLN-1.2.2 as libcln.so.5. Seriously.

This breaks every program/library linked with CLN-1.2.0 upon the upgrade
(even if the library in question uses CLN only internally). Such breakage
is not really wellcome.

> I am under the impression that the amount of trouble incurred by just
> re-building GiNaC for all distros is dwarfed by the trouble induced by a 
> soname bump.

This breaks every user-compiled library/program when libcln5 package is
upgraded (from version 1.2.0-* to 1.2.2-*). It's not really wellcome.

Best regards,
	Alexei

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