Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 23 Jun 2016, at 07:20, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23.06.2016 05:41, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:36:09PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>> We should correct sonames:
>>>> 
>>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20049
>>> 
>>> What exactly is wrong with sonames?  If you build with
>>> development=true you get the date included in the soname, if not, you
>>> don't.  That seems good to me.
>>> 
>> 
>> It is fine for master, but not for release branch. On 2.26 branch,  I got
>> 
>> libbfd-2.26.0.20160614.so  libbfd.so                      libopcodes.la
>> libbfd.a                   libopcodes-2.26.0.20160614.so  libopcodes.so
>> libbfd.la                  libopcodes.a
>> 
>> On release branch, we should change soname only when ABI is changed.
> 
> we don't do that by default, just the 2.26 release was made in development mode.
> I don't mind if the soname changes to 2.26.1 for a point release.

Yes, that's my plan.  The 2.26.0 release was incorrectly made in development mode
and that will be fixed (I hope!) for 2.26.1.  Therefore the SONAME will be
different.  I don't want to have a work-around for a transient error.

Tristan.

>  Plus in the
> past distributions were also reminded to use their own soname for distro builds.
> 
> Matthias