Bug#440063: abi changed in 2.15.21 but soname wasn't increased

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 29 août 2007 à 15:18 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> Package: libmetacity0
> Version: 1:2.14.5-4
> Severity: important
> 
> According to this entry in compiz changelog:
> 
>   * compiz-gtk needs to conflict with libmetacity0 (<< 1:2.15.21) because of
>     an incompatible ABI change. This should really be fixed in libmetacity. A
>     shlibs bump should do the trick. (Closes: 425631)
> 
> libmetacity0 changed its abi in 2.15.21 without increasing the soname.  Please,
> could you bump the soname now?
> 
> Although it's a bit late, this is necessary in order to backport compiz to
> etch.  It would allow compiz to drop this hack and thus be usable with older
> versions of libmetacity0.

Please get exact facts before we do that. Do you need a shlibs bump (as
explained in the compiz changelog) or a soname change?

AIUI there was new functions in 2.15.21 and the shlibs weren't bumped.
In this case this should be fixed in 2.20 as they had to be bumped to
2.19 anyway.

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