Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:41:00 -0700
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 11:05 PM -0400 9/28/04, Ken Smith wrote:
> > >From the "Better late than never" Department...
> >
> >It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of
> >the system libraries.  With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like
> >this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version
> >from 4.X being placed in compat4x:
> >
> >       libgnuregex.so.2
> >       libhistory.so.4
> >       libm.so.2
> >       libncurses.so.5
> >       libopie.so.2
> >       libpcap.so.2
> >       libreadline.so.4
> >       libwrap.so.3
> >
> >The bumps will be coming soon...
> 
> Does this include bumping the version number on C++ related
> libraries, as requested in the message on "5.3, libstc++, gcc34"
> on Sept 15th?

5.x has already had lots of incompatible changes requiring you to
recompile older binaries, and the above is going to be another one
(that's the price of fixing compat with 4.x).

Kris

Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 15:40:29 UTC

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