[Pkg-samba-maint] r3554 - branches/samba/experimental/debian

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:48:45PM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> > Symbols should never be dropped from a library's exported interface without
> > changing the soname or, at minimum, the package name.  If you believe all of
> > these symbols (including the wbc* ones) are guaranteed not to break binary
> > compatibility with anything that depends on this library, please document
> > this in the changelog; otherwise, please revert this change and push
> > upstream for an soname change in 3.6.0 final.

> Oh, in that case, I might be needing your help. As far as I understand
> things correctly, it seems that without these changes, building the
> package is failing.

Yes - it's *meant* to fail if symbols go missing from a library, to let you
know there's a bug! :)  Please revert this change in the meantime, and we'll
talk to upstream about whether these symbols are ok to drop or if an soname
change is needed.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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