On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 21:50:15 +0300
Alexander Bokovoy <[email protected]> wrote:

> The per-symbol API versioning in RPM was proposed five years ago by
> ALT Linux people. It actually works well in their RPM fork.
> 
> An isolated version of that code is available at
> https://github.com/svpv/rpmss
> 
> You may want to read http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/5356.html and
> associated thread discussion to understand how it all works, but
> overall it is much better suited to cover per-symbol export and import
> between ELF objects. The ABI requirements become explicit and ability
> to automatically detect which applications are using which symbols
> from a library affected by a CVE is a good example where this could
> be used.

Thanks for this.
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