[Bug 15472] ABI breakage through non-versioned shlib dependency

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------- Additional Comments From debzilla at ubuntu.com  2005-09-22 23:26 UTC -------
Message-Id: <9CBEC8C9-DE21-4CA8-872C-422618F6D42D at debian.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:08:27 +0200
From: Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org>
To: netsnipe at users.sourceforge.net
Cc: request at bugs.debian.org,
 "Jason D. Hildebrand" <jason at peaceworks.ca>,
 327861 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#327861: gobby requires recent libgtksourceview

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clone 327861 -1
retitle -1 ABI breakage through non-versioned shlib dependency
reassign -1 gtksourceview
severity -1 serious
thanks

On Sep 12, 2005, at 18:01 , Philipp Kern wrote:
> was there an ABI change in gtksourceview? If so please state that  
> through a versioned dependency in debian/shlibs, this bug report  
> sounds like a RC critical problem with the ABI versions.

gtksourceview changed its ABI and this fact is neither announced in  
shlibs to obtain correct versioned dependencies or through a name  
change of the binary package. Thus dependent packages crash when they  
are compiled for a later version, but used with earlier versions of  
the library.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
Debian Developer
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