[Bug 232873] Review Request: compat-guichan05 - compatibility libraries for guichan

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Summary: Review Request: compat-guichan05 - compatibility libraries for guichan


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232873





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2007-03-20 04:32 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> As for the con, I'm not concerned about it not being ABI compatible, as upstream
> tends to make each release ABI incompatible with the previous one anyway.  Since
> there are very few packages that depend on guichan (2 that I'm aware of), I'd
> rather coordinate upgrades of the main guichan with the addition of
> compat-guichan packages as needed.
> 

I understand, but although there are still no guidelines for this (GRRR) I only
make ABI changes in -devel, iow if you use -release in the compat package, and
follow my rules for ABI stability, then the compat package may only go into
-devel. Even though only the soname changes, this is still an ABI breakage and
IMHO the ABI should be kept stable for releases. AFAIK this is sort of an
unwritten rule. People may have build local binaries against guichan, and
breaking those in the middle of a release is a bit rude IMHO.

The easy fix for this is to not use -release for compat-guichan and if we ever
need a compat-guichan6 then ofcourse leave the -release in there.





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