[Bug 204959] Re: Please sync xapian-bindings 1.0.5-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

[Olly Betts]

> <sistpoty> ScottK2: there are two rdepends... did the API change?
> <sistpoty> (in an incompatible way)

Just to clarify (as debian packager and an upstream Xapian developer),
xapian-core 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 are both API and ABI compatible (in general,
Xapian 1.X.Y and 1.X.Z should be both ABI and API compatible, although
we messed up with 1.0.0 and regrettably had to break the ABI for 1.0.1).

The reason that xapian-bindings needs a versioned build-dep on
libxapian-dev is that it uses the C++ API more exhaustively than other
dependent packages, and minor releases of xapian-core often extend the
API/ABI.

It's worth noting that using matching xapian-core and xapian-bindings
versions gets a lot more testing too.

Overall I'd say this is a pretty low risk sync.

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Please sync xapian-bindings 1.0.5-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).
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