Hello,
>Don't shoot the messanger. It was Jörg who claimed there was an ABI >break. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908681#177 *thanks* for the followup! I think and hope we are ok now? :) as discussed via irc, better keep the bug related to the useless soname change open, and close all the unrelated bugs G. > > > Please find a single reference of something in the archive, or outside the > archive, that ever used > part of such (not meant to be exported) API. > > The *bug* was to export them in the previous version, not to remove them, > because meant to be internal symbols. > > We had other references in the archive history, where symbols incorrectly > exposed were dropped without > the need to change the ABI. > > We discussed many times already, few people (including I guess the sponsor > for that particular upload), and at least > 3 other DDs agreeded that there was no need to change the SONAME just because > of something that was not really > used anywhere in the world, included self-compiled stuff. > > All the RFS bugs for sane-backends are public, you can find lots of > discussion about the topic, and help > in better developing the package. > > I think this is a non-issue, I would like to have some real bugs before > talking about the Sex Of Angels... [1] > > I also think its better have one single bug, instead of having two of them, > for the very same source package. > > > (sorry for the Italian reference :) ) > [1] https://www.englishforums.com/English/SexOfAngels/kxpgm/post.htm > > just my .02$ > > Gianfranco > > > -- > > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> > > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > > -- Sebastian Ramacher
