Re: libsensors soname bump

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Ondřej,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:06:00 +0100, Ondřej Lysoněk wrote:
> On 16. 12. 18 12:43, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Would you consider quickly releasing lm-sensors 3.5.1 with the proper
> > library version number, to save all that work to all application
> > authors/maintainers and distribution package maintainers?  
> 
> I did consider it, but I'm afraid I can't do this, sorry. I'm afraid it
> would cause more problems than it would solve.
> 
> lm_sensors 3.5.0 has already been picked up by several distributions
> [1], and at least Arch Linux, Slackware and Gentoo have already rebuilt
> the dependent packages. It feels wrong to force the people, who already
> picked up the new version, to do the work again. I've spoken to the
> Gentoo maintainer and he's not thrilled about doing that. I'm really not
> looking forward to another batch of angry breakage reports after doing
> another soname change.
> 
> Doing the 3.5.1 release would also mean that everyone using 3.5.0 would
> have to upgrade, otherwise the values of the SENSORS_API_VERSION macro
> would be different on different systems, forcing users of that macro to
> deal with the mess.

OK. Thank you for taking the time to investigate the option. I
understand and respect your decision.

> I suggest that you use the patch that reverts the soname change in
> OpenSUSE, but keep the new SENSORS_API_VERSION so that it remains
> consistent with other distros.

You are right. I have reverted the change to SENSORS_API_VERSION from
my SUSE-local patch. While there was some beauty in having a
"structured" SENSORS_API_VERSION, there is a lot more value in using
the same value as upstream.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support