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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxl: do not expose
	libxenctrl/libxenstore headers via libxl.h
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:30:59 +0100
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>>> On 06.04.11 at 17:52, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: do not expose=20
> libxenctrl/libxenstore headers via libxl.h"):
>> libxl: do not expose libxenctrl/libxenstore headers via libxl.h
>>=20
>> This completely removes libxenstore from libxl users' view.
>>=20
>> xl still needs libxenctrl directly due to the direct use of the
>> xentoollog functionality but it is not exposed to the indirect linkage
>> anymore.
>=20
> Applied.
>=20
> Shame about the lack of API compatibility, but really the old was too
> awful.

Shouldn't API incompatible changes lead to immediate bumping of
the major version of the affected shared library?

Jan