libgtop ABI breakage

[Benoît Dejean]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:25:46PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 22.05.2017 um 09:27 schrieb Ben:
> > Dear maintainers,
> > 
> > for the next version of GNOME, we are going again to break libgtop2 ABI.
> > It's poorly designed, any addition actually breaks its ABI, I've realised
> > this, after 15 years, with abi-tracker.
> > 
> > Is there a way to make it easier for you ? Would it help that we do a major
> > release (libgtop3) instead ?
> 
> If you are breaking the ABI, you should certainly bump the soname.

Obviously. We're using libtool for that.
I only wanted to know if there was an easier path.

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Benoît Dejean