Ok for a 0.24 release?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 31 12:59:18 PST 2005


> 
> We can do that but it has limited value; there's no value to leaving
> compat libs installed because they won't be able to talk to the new
> daemon. So all bumping the soname will do is ensure you get an error
> about missing shared lib with old apps, vs errors about undefined
> symbols.
> 
> Are there other reasons to bump the soname?
> 

Jeremy says it will help with package dependencies, so whoever is making
the release should probably bump soname

Most of our packages have "Requires: dbus = version" but not quite all,
so soname will help with those (and let us do bugfix releases of dbus
without breaking deps)

Havoc




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