Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_radix.net)
Date: 09/29/04

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    On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:31:00AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
    > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:27:10PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
    > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:05:46PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
    > > >
    > > > >From the "Better late than never" Department...
    > > >
    > > > It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of
    > > > the system libraries. With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like
    > > > this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version
    > > > from 4.X being placed in compat4x:
    > > >
    > > > libgnuregex.so.2
    > > > libhistory.so.4
    > > > libm.so.2
    > > > libncurses.so.5
    ....hmmm
    > > Why do they need to be bumped? Why use the version from 4.x? It sounds like
    > > this will break a lot of 5.x binaries.
    > >
    >
    > They need to be bumped because the internal workings of the libraries

    that doesn't answer the question (libncurses hasn't changed its interface for
    some time - unless you're stating that the dynamic linker's changed
    incompatibly in some fashion). 

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