4.2 in Debian, OpenSUSE, Mageia, Gentoo
Dirk Hohndel
dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Aug 28 15:11:40 PDT 2014
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 03:03:46PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2014 13:48:42 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 2014 1:45 PM, "Tim Wootton" <tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > * libraries whose interfaces are in flux or under development
> >
> > (commonly the case when the library's major version number is zero, or
> > where the ABI breaks across patchlevels)
> >
> > Hmm. This certainly also covers libdivecomputer, but last time this
> > discussion came up, Debian didn't like statically linking to that, AFAIK.
>
> That's easy to solve. We just have to have Jef break binary compatibility in
> every release. :-)
Ummm. What makes you think that this isn't what he has done between every
minor release? He's at major 0 and there have been incompatible changes
between 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and now 0.5
That's why we WANT to link statically against libdivecomputer
> Role models are OpenSSL (pre-1.0), ICU, Boost, etc.
"Role models" is such an odd term in this context :-)
/D
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