Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hi > > Is there an statement in Debian Policy that explicitly requires higher > version of a shared library package to be backwards-binary-compatible with > previous versions of the same package? > > I mean, is a situation when after library package upgrade local binaries > stops working because of missing symbols, by definition an RC bug against > library package? Or is depends on particular situation?
Yes, it's an RC bug. If you break the API and/or ABI, you need to change the package name and the SONAME. See e.g. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#binarycompat Cheers, Emilio
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