_x_flags symbol disappered without bumping SONAME

Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:40:31 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.xine.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello everybody,

so I took upon myself the duty of upgrading xine-lib to 1.2.8 in Debian,
where it's stuck on 1.2.6.  It felt akward asking for that weird x32
port without having a new enough base here.

I think it's pretty good to go, but I noticed that the _x_flags symbol
has been removed.  Grepping around the diff between 1.2.6 and 1.2.8 I
see several references to it with comments like
    FIXME-ABI Global variable. Done this way for ABI & API reasons...
that makes me understand that you understand you had to keep it until
the next ABI break, but for some reason you removed it nonetheless.

This seems to have happened in the changeset 12769:01d637e91185.

Am I missing something and this is not a relevant ABI break, or what?
Note that I didn't check whether the reverse dependencies (within
Debian, at least) use that symbol.

Thanks in advance.

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