Re: libassuan 3.0.0 bumped the soname without bumping the symbol versioning

Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2024-06-24 NIIBE Yutaka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> libassuan bumped the soname without bumping the symbol versioning which
>> does away with the whole point of symbol versioning, avoiding crashes
>> when the at some point during the library transition period a program
>> ends up being linked (transitively) against two different versions of the
>> library.
>>
>> Could you do a quick 3.0.1 release to fix this before it has found its way
>> into the major distributions?
[...]

> Do you mean that we need to change libassuan/src/libassuan.vers, so that
> the symbols are marked by LIBASSUAN_2.0?

Good morning,

yes, exactly.

This breaks the ABI, that is why I asked to do this before 3.0.0 was
used widely.

cu Andreas
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