Who uses abi-compliance-checker?

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Thu Jul 4 02:43:22 UTC 2013


On Qui, 2013-07-04 at 00:00 +0200, Xavier Bachelot wrote: 
> On 07/03/2013 10:03 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > I initially got abi-compliance-checker into Fedora because one of my packages
> > does not maintain any sort of API/ABI compatibility or even versioning for that
> > matter. That way I could always check a new release to see if any of its
> > dependencies needed to be rebuilt.
> > 
> > Since then, I've started using it for all of my libraries in the spirit of
> > "Trust but verify", and I've occasionally found issues even though upstream
> > didn't bump the soversion.
> > 
> > So out of curiosity, anyone else using this great tool?
> >
> I'm not using abi-compliance-checker by itself but through the pkgdiff wrapper.
> I agree this tool is very helpful.

pkgdiff and abi-compliance-checker seems to be a very cool tool,
unfortunately now, I'm very busy and haven't time to investigate
further, or just to follow this thread ... 
anyway IIRC I think that what Nicolas (kwizart) ask for when we want
bump soname on ffmpeg and others packages etc ...   So maybe this is
interesting for rpmfusion  . 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.



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