[patch] don't break ABI in upcoming 0.34 release
Alexander Larsson
alexl at redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 01:15:14 PDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:00 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Even though we break the protocol somewhere after 0.33 we don't actually
> change the libdbus interface so bumping the soname is not necessary.
> Packagers should be advised to not restart the system message bus in
> e.g. %post though (but this already breaks a lot of stuff). I've tested
> HEAD with this patch and at least HAL and NetworkManager is still as
> happy as with 0.33. Without the patch recompiles are required. Hence the
> patch.
Surely upgrading to this version without restarting the message bus will
break things too. All new processes use the new libdbus which uses a
different protocol than the currently running system bus.
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