Re: accidental ABI break

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hi Dan,

Dan Winship wrote:
> libsoup 2.54.0 accidentally broke ABI (by adding a member to
> SoupAuthClass and not removing a padding member to compensate).
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765222,
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821274) Is there a
> preferred way for dealing with this? I'd like to just belatedly remove
> the padding member to get back to the old ABI and then declare 2.54.0 to
> have never happened, but that is slightly problematic in that most
> distros probably currently have packages that were built against the
> 2.54.0 sources, so they would need to make sure to rebuild everything
> that depends on libsoup after packaging 2.54.1. But if they're going to
> have to do that, then maybe I should just embrace the ABI break and bump
> the .so version and force the rebuild anyway? Or maybe I can get away
> with just undoing the break and sending a warning to distributors@ ?

As a datapoint I just talked with Debian and Ubuntu developers and
that last option (undoing the break) would be ok.


        Fred