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[Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 04.07.2017 um 19:08 schrieb Jon Foster:
> Thanks for the heads up about Deb9. I hadn't seen that yet. Moving to 
> Devuan myself.
>
> But all this talk about PHP is off topic. Its just one example. I guess 
> I'll take these comments to mean that the official stance on binary 
> backwards compatibility is that there is less then 0 concern. So I 
> should expect that all compiled software will need to be patched and 
> recompiled potentially with each point release. This is a surprise.

how is that a surprise?

Oracle even did manage it two times  that they broke ABI compatibility 
without a soname bump and than *after* the GA release they introduced 
the soname bump

that's what point releases are for

but i find that whole rename to libmariadb commplete nonsense because 
the whole world needs to make a dance around this in tons of projects 
while a smart transition would have provided a compatibilit layer so 
that a simple re-compile is enough