The road to SDL2 2.0.7

[Felix Geyer]

Hi,

On 04.11.2017 14:42, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 04.11.2017, 00:30 +0100 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez
> Montecelo:
>> Finally, they are really commited to ABI stability in the last few
>> years, so they treat problematic ABI changes very seriously.
> 
> symbols files aren't there to track ABI breaking changes (this would
> require a SONAME bump anyway) but API additions. And, as you have
> already correctly stated, SDL development was rather stangnant around
> the last decade but has recently gained more steam again. So, they
> might be adding more API between releases and we currently have to keep
> track of that manually.

Only in the sense that we have to manually apply SDL_INTERFACE_AGE from
configure.in to SHLIBVER in debian/rules.

>> In what way?  AFAICT from rules, it doesn't build with /extra/ flags,
>> but it should get the default ones.
> 
> Yes, you are right. We are building only with the standard hardening
> flgs, but not with the full set.

At least for libraries that is exactly the same set of flags.

Felix