[Android-tools-devel] Bug#1062206: android-libaapt, android-libandroidfw: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 08:26:11AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 09:14:53PM -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> > related to #1062209, and #1062110
> > so aligning with the same way to the bug report.
> > 
> > [ copy the email from Hans ]
> > 
> > Thanks for reporting!  In the Android Tools case, the shared libs and packages
> > that use them are packaged together, often from the same source package, so I
> > can't see why we'd need special versions of it. And when we need to, we can use
> > strictly versioned depends, so it should be fine.
> 
> All of that would be true if the packages involved were using
> strictly versioned depends, but they are not:
> 
> Package: aapt
> Source: android-platform-frameworks-base (1:14~beta1-2)
> Depends: android-libaapt, android-libandroidfw, [...]
> 
> At least I don't see an "(= 1:14~beta1-2)" constraint here.

Oh, and while you can do that going forward, you also need to
break/conflict with all old versions.

Maybe you should rethink if this is a good strategy.

Chris