Re: libgailutil.so.16 -> libgailutil.so.17



Jon Svendsen <jon-sven frisurf no> writes:
> 
> So what happened to binary compatibility for the duration of the 2.x
> family? The latest release of gail went and pulled a gal ;) Is this a
> bug? An oversight? Or "real" binary incompatibility?
> 

bin compat only applies to the platform libraries (those that apps
outside of GNOME are supposed to be linking to).

Though of course we want to minimize breakage in other libs just for
everyone's convenience. sonames should always get bumped with bin
incompat changes, though.

Havoc



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