[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#879886: libhts2: libhts2 needs to handle ABI changes

[Afif Elghraoui]

على الجمعـة  3 تشرين الثاني 2017 ‫17:52، كتب Diane Trout:
> There was also symbols removed between 1.4.1 to 1.5 but upstream didn't
> change their SOVERSION.
> 
> As an aside while I was looking at the missing symbols I found mfprintf
> was still listed in htslib 1.5's cram/mFILE.h, but the implementation
> had been removed from cram/mFILE.c
> 
> Should we be patching the SOVERSION? 
> File a bug upstream to have them update SOVERSION?

This was upstream's advice [1]:

> (When your symbols script comes up with MISSING it would be helpful
> if Debian would start by running "git log -S symbolname" which will
> usually provide an explanation, rather than assuming that something
> terrible has happened.


regards
Afif

1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822701#56

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