Announce: freedesktop.org 1.6 python2 ABI break

[Alberto Ruiz]

Thanks a lot Alex,

Something I'd like is for people to review the list and make sure my
scripts didn't miss anything.

2018-02-19 9:55 GMT+01:00 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>:

> Hi, i'm just about to import the latest build of the freedesktop 1.6
> SDK into flathub, and it contains an ABI change that might break some
> python2 apps.
> The change is that we now build python2 with ucs4 instead of ucs2
> unicode size. This means that we will now match the ABI of almost all
> distros.
>
> This *will* break some apps, but we've done some research on which
> apps are affected and will immediately rebuild them. See this for
> details:
>
>   https://github.com/flatpak/freedesktop-sdk-base/issues/18
>
> However, if for some reason we missed some app, and you see errors like:
>
>  undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_AsUTF8String
>
> This is the reason, and a simple rebuild should fix it.
>
> I realize that this is not really compatible with the story that
> runtimes are ABI stable, but this change seemed important enough to
> make that we decided to do this at this point, as it will only become
> harder to make later as we get more apps.
>
> --
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>  Alexander Larsson                                Red Hat, Inc
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Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz
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