libassuan 3.0.0 bumped the soname without bumping the symbol versioning

[Werner Koch]

Hi!
On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 18:18, Andreas Metzler said:

> Could you do a quick 3.0.1 release to fix this before it has found its way
> into the major distributions?

Just did this:

#+macro: libassuan_ver  3.0.1
#+macro: libassuan_date 2024-06-24
#+macro: libassuan_size 578k
#+macro: libassuan_sha1 776aac6fe4a64f29406bb498e0b2b73f2622c799
#+macro: libassuan_sha2 c8f0f42e6103dea4b1a6a483cb556654e97302c7465308f58363778f95f194b1

776aac6fe4a64f29406bb498e0b2b73f2622c799  libassuan-3.0.1.tar.bz2


I don't think that using symbol versions for a transitioning process is
a good idea.  There actual use case is to allow several symbols in the
same library to avoid an ABI break (for example if a parameter is added
to a fucntion).

Having several versions of a library linked into one process is simply
wrong unless that library has been written with such a use case in mind.
All kind of subtle error may show up and it is a support hassle.  We
seen that in the past at least with GnuTLS linked directly to dirmngr
and also with another version due to Openldap.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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