From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Neal P. Murphy" Subject: Re: libxtables backward compatibility Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20160703172944.025b3102@playground> References: <20160703160042.76f76433@playground> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail1.wpi.edu ([130.215.36.91]:58233 "EHLO MAIL1.WPI.EDU" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932156AbcGCV3s (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:48 -0400 Received: from MAIL1.WPI.EDU (MAIL1.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.91]) by MAIL1.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id u63LTlNO001155 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:47 -0400 Received: from MX3.WPI.EDU (mx3.wpi.edu [130.215.36.147]) by MAIL1.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id u63LTlsn001151 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:47 -0400 Received: from ALUM.WPI.EDU (alum.wpi.edu [130.215.36.126]) by MX3.WPI.EDU (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u63LTkGY011561 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:46 -0400 (envelope-from neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu) Received: from playground (c-73-251-108-62.hsd1.va.comcast.net [73.251.108.62]) (authenticated authen=neal.p.murphy) by ALUM.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u63LTjpK015705 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:29:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:59:36 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2016-07-03 22:00, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > >Specifically, should programs linked to--and expecting to use--libxtables.so.7 > >work with versions libxtables.so.10 and libxtables.so.11? I suspect yes > > Absolutely not. Never has been in any shared library system. Drat. So I'll include all three versions in the next update. Unless the older versions of iptables are not compatible with newer versions of linux. (I begin to see why some products stay with a specific set of pkg versions for longer periods of time: keeping one or two things updated can turn into a full-time job updating all of the related pkgs.) Thanks, Neal