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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-91531

Inconsistent use of Qt_6_PRIVATE_API breaks BC between Qt 6.0 and Qt 6.1

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    • Linux/Wayland, Linux/X11, Linux/Other display system
    • e4efa00c72c7011f4e5c27722c2a522b30274610 (qt/qtbase/6.1) 734ab493f7c05e06f4c8bc99884d8a99612c79c0 (qt/qtbase/dev)

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      Just consider the the output of readelf for the different versions of Qt Network:

      ${color} readelf -CWs /usr/lib/libQt6Network.so.6.1.0 | grep -i qsslcertificate::frompath
       1888: 00000000000b0d90  2363 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 QSslCertificate::fromPath(QString const&, QSsl::EncodingFormat, QSslCertificate::PatternSyntax)@@Qt_6_PRIVATE_API
      ${color} readelf -CWs usr/lib/libQt6Network.so.6.0.1 | grep -i qsslcertificate::frompath     
       1813: 00000000000a7890  2363 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   11 QSslCertificate::fromPath(QString const&, QSsl::EncodingFormat, QSslCertificate::PatternSyntax)@@Qt_6

      This leads to failures like

      syncthingtray-qt6 --help
      syncthingtray-qt6: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libsyncthingconnector-qt6.so.1.1.2: undefined symbol: _ZN15QSslCertificate8fromPathERK7QStringN4QSsl14EncodingFormatENS_13PatternSyntaxE, version Qt_6

      unless one would recompile the application/library against the new ABI.

      It looks like symbols/functions using QSsl::EncodingFormat are affected.

      These libraries come from Arch Linux but it looks very similar with the ones provided for openSUSE. Here are the corresponding build scripts:

      I couldn't find any relevant changes (git diff v6.0.0..v6.1.0-beta1 – src/network/ssl/qsslcertificate.{h,cpp}) so I suspect something within the underlying system which makes the decision whether to add Qt_6_PRIVATE_API or not has changed or depends on something random.

      I assume the correct behavior is that Qt_6_PRIVATE_API is not added to the symbol name because none of these functions belong to the private API.

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