Re: Minutes from todays call

On Tue, Nov 29, Andrew Josey wrote:

> Pam :
> An issue was raised on the pam library.
> Symbols within the pam library are now versioned , and our tools do not
> expect that and will flag that as errors in libchk , and
> presumably appcheck for applications that link with the
> library. This needs attention by the Spec Authority.

I think the error from appcheck is ok here. Because if you link
against the new Linux-PAM release, the resulting binaries will not
run any longer on a system with the old PAM libraries. While if you link
it on an old system, it will work on a new one.

If we change the spec for PAM and add the symbol versions, we should
do that only for LSB 4 and not for 3.x. Else we will loose compatibility
with 3.0.

  Thorsten

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