#921069 libxcb-dri3.so.0: added ABI without increasing -version-info

Package:
libxcb-dri3-0
Source:
libxcb
Description:
X C Binding, dri3 extension
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-07-02 17:43:11 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#921069#5
Date:
2019-02-01 09:14:15 UTC
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To:
libxcb-dri3 version 1.13 appears to have added new symbols without increasing
the minor ABI version in its -version-info. This will break anything that
compares libraries by their version info to decide which one is newer.

The Steam Runtime uses libraries' major/minor/micro ABI version info (in this
case 0.0.0) to decide whether to use the system copy of a library or the copy
in the Steam Runtime, depending on which one is newer (#921026). We can
work around this by adding a versioned dependency on libxcb-dri3-0 and
deleting the copy from the Steam Runtime, but this isn't a particularly
scalable solution.

    smcv
#921069#10
Date:
2019-02-02 10:01:25 UTC
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That's kind of a bad side effect of the xcb-proto / libxcb split, where
the actual contents of the libraries depend on the xcb-proto xml files.
 I'm not sure how to fix that.

Cheers,
Julien