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Date:   Sun, 2 May 2021 20:55:10 +0300
From:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:49:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 9:45 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Mesa and PostgreSQL are among the packages that do use libLLVM.so,
> > this is a popular library for implementing compilers and JITs.
> 
> Yes, and it's entirely reasonable to update those packages if it turns
> out libLLVM has a bug in it.
> 
> Because we're talking about a small handful of packages, not some kind
> of "everything" model.
> 
> So again, what's your point?

Two dozen other packages are linking directly with libLLVM.so.

Are you happy about libclang.so being a shared library?
libclang.so uses libLLVM.so, which adds another 10 indirect users.

Debian ships 30k source packages that build 60k binary packages,
with 3 years of security support (plus 2 years LTS).

It makes things a lot easier from a distribution point of view if a bug 
in libLLVM can be fixed just there, instead of having to additionally 
find and rebuild the 30 or more source packages building binary packages 
that use libLLVM in a security update for a stable release of a distribution.

>              Linus

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Adrian