[maemo-developers] Backwards compatibility broken PR1.1 SDK

[From: Michael Cronenworth]

Niels Breet on 01/18/2010 03:08 PM wrote:
> Can we, like with the opt problem, come to a solution with
> community power[tm]?

An SONAME change during a distribution version's lifetime is quite 
nasty. Most, if not all, distributions frown upon such a thing. I'm 
surprised that this was done, given the locked down state of some 
Brainstorm ideas. I realize that sometimes it is unavoidable, but a 
e-mail to the maemo-developers list would have been helpful. More 
communication the better. :)

The proper way to handle it would be option 3. The Maemo build system 
should be able to perform "Broken Dependency" checks daily (or upon your 
request) to insure a stateful system. An e-mail[1] to maemo-developers 
(or the appropriate list) should be sent that lists the broken packages. 
If there are packages that were built against an older SONAME, a Maemo 
or Nokia member should rebuild those packages and file bugs with the 
project if a rebuild fails. The package release number should be 
incremented and a changelog entry that defines "Rebuild for 
$LIBRARY_NAME change" should be added.

[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-January/087997.html