Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

Mike Hommey <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:09:14 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.lsb
Organization	glandium.org
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:40:14PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> .... from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition.
> >
> > If there's no patch, there's nothing to discuss, then.
> 
> Going forward, though, can you avoid potential issues like this
> by maintaining better ABI compatibility between versions?
> i.e. when you add a libncurses.so.7, can you make it so
> that all apps that linked against libncurses.so.6 still continue
> to work without recompilation?

Or even better, make it totally ABI compatible, thus not even bump the
SO version.

Mike