[Pkg-clamav-devel] Fwd: Bug in init script

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Scott,

On 02.07.2014 19:52, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On July 2, 2014 12:30:06 PM EDT, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 02.07.2014 13:23, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>> On 2014-07-01 22:37:33 [+0200], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>> Assuming they would allow it, this would probably not make it into
>> 7.6,
>>>> which is coming during the next weekend.
>>>> First we have to fix things in unstable and then wait for them to
>> transition
>>>> to testing.
>>>> And then we would have to coordinate stable updates of all affected
>>>> reverse-dependencies together with clamav...
>>>
>>> Puh. The current clamav version shouldn't make it into stable as-is.
>>
>> Indeed. As that API change is a serious bug, I think we should
>> cherry-pick the SONAME bump and upload to experimental as soon as
>> possible, so that the new package libclamav7 can go through binary-NEW.
>
> Only if we're sure there won't be other ABI breaking changes in the next release. We might be better off just to use breaks to manage the transition.

We can never be sure that there won't be more API changes, but I don't 
think any are planned. Anyway the API changed incompatibly and so the 
soversion should be bumped.
If we use breaks now, we'll have to make another transition for the next 
upstream release, although probably the ABI won't change.
And if there really is another change, we could also handle that 
transition with breaks.

So I don't see what would be better, if we postpone the soversion bump.

Best regards,
Andreas