Re: [Evolution-hackers] libecal soname change

[Patrick Ohly <patrick ohly gmx de>]

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 08:22 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 11:30 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > I just noticed that libecal bumped its soname to libecal-1.2.so.16 in
> > EDS 3.10. The corresponding commit is:
> >
> > commit f30ae26320b359666b345c92405bf87f3f43250a
> > Author: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>
> > Date:   Tue Jul 16 06:34:02 2013 -0400
> >
> >     Bump libecal / libedata-cal soname for API breaks.
> >
> > Matthew, can you elaborate what that break is?
>
> The libdata-cal bump was to cover the preceding commits:
[...]
> The libecal bump looks like it may have been a mistake on my part.  I
> must have been under the impression the client-side API changed as well.

Indeed, it looks like the soname change was unnecessary. It's too late
to fix now, though. Can we perhaps agree on a different procedure for
soname changes?

If a patch requires a soname change, then alert the list here. Then
interested developers can double-check whether a change really is
necessary and/or whether a different solution can be found.

In addition, the email will serve as warning about upcoming soname
changes for developers (like me) who want to provide pre-compiled
binaries.

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