[Debichem-devel] Bug#1138824: Bug#1138824: nmu: coot_1.1.18+dfsg-5

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 09:37:26AM +0200, Michael Banck via Debichem-devel wrote:
> I have complained about this here:
> https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/pull/8765#issuecomment-5114438834
> 
> But I am wondering what to do here in case upstream is not planning to
> bump their API, it has been a while and we shipped a few releases with
> the dropped/renamed(?) symbols.
> 
> I guess the options are:
> 
> 1. Hold our nose, rebuild coot as requested and add versioned deps.
> Are there any other reverse deps of librdkit1t64? I don't think so.
> 2. Bump librdkit1t64 to librdkit1d (would that work? do we need
> something like librdkit1z to sort after 1t64?).
> 3. Drop the shared libraries, because we are dealing with scientific
> software.
> 
> 
> I'll see what the rdkit guys say first.

That was fast:

|we do not guarantee ABI stability from one release to the next. One
|should assume that dependencies that link against RDKit shared libs will
|need to be rebuilt against a new RDKit release. Code changes should,
|however, generally not be required. Any time that is the case, it will
|be covered in the release notes

So I guess we should go with option 3 above?


Michael