[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gnustep-gui ABI break

[Eric Heintzmann]

Le 27/09/2017 à 15:25, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> Unfortunately there is an ABI incompatibility in 0.25.1 on 64-bit
> architectures, particularly the ivar type changes in NSTableHeaderView
> and NSTableView.  Especially NSTableView is subclassed very often so I
> guess there could be problems even with some of the packages in the
> archive.
>
> Since no upload has been made so far there is no damage done yet, as
> far as Debian is concerned.
>
> There are two things we can do:
>
> 1. Introduce a Debian-specific SONAME.  This is easy and
>    straightforward, I've done it before for non-core GNUstep
>    libraries.
>
> 2. Ask upstream to make a new release, bumping the SONAME -- either
>    identical to 0.25.1 or a snapshot of the current trunk, as they
>    prefer.  This is better for all other users and distros, but needs
>    some coordination and effort from upstream.
>
I would prefer 2.

But first I suggest you report the bug upstream.