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List:       openssl-dev
Subject:    Re: Version numbering and soname's.
From:       Kurt Roeckx <kurt () roeckx ! be>
Date:       2011-02-12 10:13:22
Message-ID: 20110212101322.GA1818 () roeckx ! be
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:47:27PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 
> > One of my problems with openssl is that changing compile time
> > options break the ABI.  And people don't seem to be willing to
> > change this.
> > 
> > With every version I upload to Debian I do check for possible
> > problems before I upload it and have seen various problems
> > during the 0.9.8 series.  I've enabled some new options that did
> 
> How do you check?  It's a nontrivial static analysis task to automate
> but with almost every new version -- not every trailing-letter bump,
> however -- I find many such problems by eyeball, just in the course
> of integrating the changes into our local revision control system.

I diff the old headers against the new headers.

At some point I also used some software for that, but it never
really worked properly.


Kurt

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