Add symlink libbfd-2.24-system.so

[Nazar Mokrynskyi]

HHVM (HipHop Vitrual Machine by Facebook) for Ubuntu 14.04 expects to find file libbfd-2.24-system.so, but Ubuntu 14.10 I don't know why new version is named to weird libbfd-2.24.51-system.20140425.so

Is it possible to add at least symlink to this new file with old name?
I've added symlink and HHVM works fine now.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

no, there is no guarantee about the ABI compatibility. Best thing is to avoid such a dependency, or wait until the final 14.10 release for an updated third party package.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

But this is only patch version update.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Am 07.06.2014 10:43, schrieb Nazar Mokrynskyi:
> But this is only patch version update.

No, trusty has 2.24, utopic is built from the trunk.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

Then versioning is broken, because version I've mentioned is 2.24.51, so, obviously it is backward compatible with any 2.24.*. And trusty does have 2.24 just like you've said.
And all this is proved by perfectly working HHVM after symlink creation.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Am 07.06.2014 11:58, schrieb Nazar Mokrynskyi:
> Then versioning is broken, because version I've mentioned is 2.24.51, so, obviously it is backward compatible with any 2.24.*. And trusty does have 2.24 just like you've said.
> And all this is proved by perfectly working HHVM after symlink creation.

No, nothing is broken. This is the versioning used by upstream. 2.24.5x and
2.24.9x lead to 2.25.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

Usually (according to semantic versioning) patch is not used for such non-obvious things.
Even in such way it would be much more logical to have versioning like GNOME, they use minor odd versions for development.
I just want to explain that such "magical" versioning is pretty confusing. Moreover, even minor version supposed to be backward compatible, so, symlink should work great until major version is increased.

[Zied ALAYA (zied.alaya)]

same here with Grive (a utility for Google Drive client)