Headsup: new (soname changing) glew headed for devel

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Jan 21 22:09:45 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 21:58 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've prepared a new glew release (1.5.0) to push to rawhide, nothing special 
> really just a bugfix release, but still upstream decided to bump the version 
> from 1.5.0 to 1.4.0 and even though there is no ABI breakage, thus change the 
> soname from libGLEW.so.1.4 to libGLEW.so.1.5 causing explicit ABI breakage :(

Ick.  Perhaps consider beating upstream into using DT_SONAME of
libGLEW.so.1 ?

- ajax




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