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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:02:12
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nYr57eDU1SHZzQeZCzJsgeg8mig_-Dav3V-o7vuoRUDg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 02/03/2016 17:49, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html
4 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128
5 >>
6 >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely
7 >> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this
8 >> kind of breakage.
9 >
10 > brain dead is being kind to folks with non-functioning brains...
11 >
12 > I'm now seriously considering the libressl folks might have a point.
13 >
14
15 You mean the project that forked openssl, changed the APIs and ABIs,
16 and also kept the same SONAMEs for "compatibility?" We can see how
17 well that worked with libav...
18
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20 Rich