[OpenAFS-devel] open issues for an openafs 1.8 branch

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:20:15 -0400 (EDT)
> Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Debian currently has packages for libafsauthent1, libafsrpc1, and
> > libkopenafs1 (and the pam modules, which I am discounting for this
> > question).  They contain only shared libraries, and no static libraries,
> > which is the standard debian policy.
>
> I sent you some mail privately about some symbols that appear to have
> changed between 1.6 and master so something will need to be done
> instead of nothing (possibly just changing the symbol versions instead
> of the shared library version itself). Another question might be, is

I don't think libtool gives us per-symbol versioning.  We as upstream have
to either bump SONAME or nothing at all.

> there anything other than OpenAFS utils linked against those shared
> libs on debian? If not, it probably doesn't matter what you do.

It doesn't look like it, but I don't think we should use that as an excuse
to be lazy.

-Ben