Debian Developers - Re: Build-Depends: libfoo-dev more susceptible to breaking (Re: shared library -dev pa

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Re: Build-Depends: libfoo-dev more susceptible to breaking (Re: shared library -dev pa

Steve Langasek

2005-07-15, 6:06 pm

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:18:23PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
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> I'm talking about the following case:

> 1. libA depends on libB1, but only build-depends on libB-dev
> 2. libB1 changes to be libB2.
> 3. libA is rebuilt with libB2 without maintainer noticing (could happen
> on buildd, etc.), possibly creating a noncompatible interface.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^

That's the part that needs to be fixed.

> It would be a practical case especially when libB1, libB2 are not
> using versioned symbols.

Except that libB *should* be using versioned symbols, for all libB where
there exists a libA that depends on it.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer