samba-libs: Possible policy violation (now with unnecessary soname bump libndr.so.2 => libndr.so.3)

[Andreas Schneider]

On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 11:21:55 CET Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 01.11.2022 13:14, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> > On 11/1/22 09:15, Michael Tokarev via samba-technical wrote:
> >> Control: tag -1 + upstream
> >> 
> >> Original context was at http://bugs.debian.org/1013259 , but whole
> >> thing *now* has is about completely unnecessary soname bump of libndr
> >> in 4.17 due to debugging refinements.
> > 
> > to me this looks like a packaging bug.
> 
> It indeed is, I fixed it already.
> 
> The question remains though: why the .3 bump happened in the first
> place, due to a change just in a debug helper routine, which was
> trivial to avoid (like I've shown in the patches just posted to
> the list).

libndr is not a stable API it can change any time!

The only stable APIs in Samba are:

libtalloc
libtevent
libtdb
libsmbclient
libwbclient
libnetapi



	Andreas


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