Re: [RFC] Packaging libtraceevent.so

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:56:33 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> So the level of stable I think would be needed is basically being able
> to ship a new libtraceevent.so and have it not break a powertop that
> was linked against a previous version.  E.g. libtraceevent.so provided
> with the 3.15 kernel release can be used as an update to the
> libtraceevent.so from the 3.13 release and powertop doesn't need to be
> rebuilt.
> 
> That's typically done with soname and/or symbol versioning.  Clearly
> applications wishing to use new libtraceevent features would need to
> be rebuilt to take advantage of those, but basic functionality should
> be pretty stable.  Changing soname/ABI happens elsewhere in userspace
> libs and isn't a big deal for development, but those bumps typically
> aren't done in the middle of a released distro version.  There are
> several distros that do major kernel version updates during the
> lifetime of a release so anything coming from those needs to be
> handled carefully.

There's a couple of things that need to be cleaned up first, that will
affect current users. But they are minor. I think we can work on this
soon and get something out by the next release.

-- Steve
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