Broken ABI in networkmanager-qt

Jan Grulich jgrulich at redhat.com
Tue May 17 09:06:54 UTC 2016


Hi,

we decided to drop WiMAX support in nm-qt when it's compiled against NM 1.2.0, 
but this seems to break binary compatibility when nm-qt was previously build 
against older NM version. I didn't realize this before that this could happen 
and now I'm not sure how fix that.

We could either:
1) Revert the change removing WiMAX support, but that would break ABI 
compatibility one more time.

2) Keep it as it is and let packagers know about this problem and ask them to 
rebuild everything using nm-qt (plasma-nm, plasma-workspace) in case they 
already have NM 1.2.0.

What do you think is a better option?

Change review: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123642/

I'm really sorry for this problem and will be more careful next time when 
doing such changes. Thanks.

Regards,
Jan
-- 
Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com>
Software Engineer, Desktop team
Red Hat Czech


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