From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debian: strictly depend on the same version of libnotmuch
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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:36:22 -0300
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:12:19 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
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> On 07/10/2011 08:53 AM, David Bremner wrote:
> > |  The underlying issue is that the libnotmuch interface is not
> > |  entirely captured by the set of exported symbols. In particular the
> > |  query syntax can change without being visible to the linker at all.
> 
> This suggests to me that we may need to be bumping the SONAME when the
> query string format changes, no?
> 

If we follow the same rules as with symbols, then only when it breaks
backwards compatability.

d