openssl097a package retirement

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 17:15:49 UTC 2007


Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray (debarshi.ray at gmail.com) said: 
> I am afraid you got me wrong here. I did not use the term "compatible"
> to mean license compatibility. I wanted to know whether an application
> which dlopens libssl.so.0.9.8 could safely use libssl.so.0.9.8b
> instead, without causing any API/ABI breakage?

'Not necessarily'. It's why the soname changes.

Bill




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