[meego-packaging] Send notifications if ABI/API changes

Arjan van de Ven arjan at linux.intel.com
Fri Dec 17 07:18:48 PST 2010


On 12/17/2010 5:54 AM, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
> Recently we found some cases/issues that base/middleware packages changes ABI but application developers don’t know at all. It’s bad and dangerous. 
>
> So, once a package update/upgrade involves a ABI changes, before submitting to T:T, please send an notification to meego-dev and meego-packaging and let release engineers know with detailed information of 
>  * what has changed,
>   * what are required to do in upper stack to work with the ABI changes

also if the ABI changes in a library, the soname obviously must bump...



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