Bug#1088784: libqqwing2v5: ABI break causes gnome-sudoku to crash after setting difficulty

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Simon,

Am Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 09:17:11PM +0000 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 at 21:42:04 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Reopened bug 1013230
> 
> Reopening failed because the bug was closed long ago to be archived, but
> I've unarchived and reopened it now (hopefully that will work).

Thank you for watching me!
 
> > and not closing 1088784 but setting it to severity
> > normal since it should not be RC
> 
> I'm pretty sure the ABI break #1088784 should continue to be RC: it's a
> Policy §8.1 violation which makes the dependent package gnome-sudoku
> crash, when it is using the library correctly (as far as I know) and
> was previously working.

Well, I understood the patch introduced the ABI break.
 
> Rebuilding gnome-sudoku would temporarily work around this, but would
> not be a correct solution, because the rebuilt gnome-sudoku would not
> necessarily continue to work correctly after reverting the ABI break
> in libqqwing2v5.

Did I missed anything or should there have been a RC bug even against
qqwing 1.3.4-1.1 ? 

Kind regards
    Andreas.

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