Bug#873362: coinor-libcoinutils3v5: unannounced ABI change without SONAME change?

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 28/08/17 19:57, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Thanks all for discussion, explanations and investigations!
> 
> @Rene, I propose to close this bug or to wait till upload of libreoffice.
> 
> Next time, when the new coinutils version comes, I will let you know
> and coinmp should be tested against the new coinutils. Then it should
> probably be uploaded into the sid restricting in BD the minimal coinutils
> to guarantee the ABI compatibility like it done for all other dependent
> packages [1]. What do you think?
> 
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/coinor-cbc.git/tree/debian/control#n8

If there is an ABI break, you must rename the package. Trying to
restrict the build-dependencies will have no effect on the dependencies
at runtime which is where the ABI actually matters.

Thanks,
James

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