But what about ABI breakage? (was Re: freetype 2.1.10 and Embolden)

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:17:09AM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> I wonder what does the developers think about this issue?  Freetype
> upstream says they are going to bump the SONAME to 7 in the coming 2.2.0
> release, but it's not likely to happen soon.  As more and more packages
> get built against libfreetype6 2.1.10-1, this problem will become larger
> and larger.  I really hope it can get sorted out at this early stage of
> develop cycle.

Sigh.  For now, while FreeType still have absolutely no understanding of
the word 'compatibility', despite repeated sagas in the past, I guess
the best thing to do is to just repeatedly bump the shlibs; possibly
even dh_makeshlibs -V.  Which sucks, but when upstream is this
pathological, there's not much you can do.
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