Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:58:23AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrice Dumas (pertusus(a)free.fr) said:
>> If something is added between 2.8 and 2.10 while ABI is kept compatible
>> and the soname isn't changed, and that new thing is needed, then the
>> soname is not enough.
> Only in the case when you're running something built against, say
> Fedora 8, on Fedora < 8. (Or Fedora 8 from some number of months
> ago, I suppose, if people are gratuitously upgrading libraries.)
As said this has happened with real life use cases:
But these cases are (should be!) much the exception, and not the rule.
-- Rex