[Xcb] Opensuse 11.2 missing xcb_xlib_lock

[Hearns, John]

> 
> libxcb-xlib.so.0 does not exist anymore.  Current XCB does not build
or
> ship it, and xcb_xlib_lock no longer exists.  If an application (or
> more
> likely some library that application links to) still uses that symbol
> or
> library, the application or library needs rebuilding against current
> Xlib and XCB.
> 
> Note that due to the insanity of some build tools, sometimes
> applications end up linking against libraries that they don't actually
> need but their dependencies do, such as libxcb-xlib.
> "objdump -p /path/to/application | grep NEEDED" will show you the
exact
> list of libraries the application links against.  If libxcb-xlib
> appears
> in that list, the application needs rebuilding; otherwise one of its
> dependencies does.


This is a really, really dumb policy.
So you make an upgrade from one minor number release to another and a
vital xorg library drops a routine,
leaving applications which were working now broken?
Deprecate a routine by all means.

And what if this application is a commercial application? You might not
have the luxury of recompiling.

John Hearns

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