Re: purpose of GnuTLS versions

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello!

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> skribis:
>>
>>> Then there's the question of what to do in the meantime for
>>> master. Grafts for 3.7.2? Move packages to 3.7.7?
>>
>> Graft, after making sure both versions are ABI-compatible (it should be
>> the case).
>
> Unfortunately, we may not be so lucky. ABI Laboratory* reports that
> were some changes in 3.7.3 [0].

I would recommend checking by running ‘abidiff’ (from the ‘libabigail’
package) on our own binaries, to be sure.

If there are only additions (new symbols), which is what I would expect,
then we’re fine.  If there were deletions (unlikely), then we may have a
problem.

HTH!

Ludo’.