On Sunday, February 16, 2020, at 10:48 PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > In my reading abseil is _not_ guaranteed to have ABI compatibility at > all times. That's why it meant to be a static library collection only. > Forcing it to build shared libraries and have other packages than > libabseil-cpp-dev is no sense I think.
Abseil does reserve the right to break ABI at any time, and I can’t speak to their future plans. But I think ABI breakages are unlikely to occur in practice within an LTS release. If we wait and then package an LTS release, I it’ll be completely reasonable to ship .so’s and .a’s. Relatedly, I think we should only package LTS Abseil for Debian. If someone finds a CVE in Abseil, the Abseil team are going to want to backport the fix to LTS releases; they’re not going to want to backport it everywhere else. > @Benjamin: may you ask its developers to use the system gtest libraries > if only ABSL_RUN_TESTS set to ON? Absolutely. I’ll bring it up with them at work tomorrow (today was a US holiday).
