packaging and binary incompatibility coming from the compiler

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> Sometimes changes in the compiler leads to binary incompatibility. How
> to deal with these kind of incompatibilitites? I don't think that using
> the soname for those kind of incompatibilities is right, are there other
> technniques?

The Fedora technique has been to rebuild all packages when a new compiler 
breaking the ABI is introduced. This means new compiler ABIs can only 
coincide with new Fedora releases, and it's been working quite well.

Linus