Re: src: remove dependency on libiptc headers

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2008-08-04 10:35, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> The API actually remains the same, due to the nature of char[]
>>> decaying into char* (and .name is also only used in the registrator);
>>> the ABI (indicated by XTABLES_VERSION) changes yes, and that is fine
>>> because we moved from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2-rc1.
>> Sure, but say that someone uses whatever iproute2 version <=
>> iproute2-2.6.26 - which does not check for any ABI version numbering
>> AFAICS - and then it compiles whatever >= 1.4.2-rc1 by hand, then
>> jamal's ipt thing will not work as they use different ABIs.
>>
>> I'm not talking on how to solve future interdependecy problems - which
>> you seems to have it done by exporting xtables as library - but the
>> problems that the size change of .name will trigger for some time.
> 
> If the ABI changes, the libxtables.so ABI version number just get
> bumped, that is what they are there for.

Great. You're breaking previous backward compatibility with old iproute2
versions since they are not checking that number.

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