5.1 -> 5.2 move

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Jun 6 21:00:18 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:55:28PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Patrice Dumas (pertusus at free.fr) said: 
> > Obssoletes:     gtkhtml3 < 3.12.1
> > 
> > But I may very well be missing something.
> 
> Not sure you want to Obsolete it, depending on where you're placing
> the package.

But, if not Obsoleting, it won't be updated?

> > Also 
> > * maybe the devel package is not needed?
> 
> It's a different ABI - you can still develop against the old one
> (as it does actually take some porting, and depending on what you
> link against, porting may not be possible.)

Indeed, but avoiding breaking ABI is very important, but for API it is
less improtant since users have time to port. But indeed it is even
better.

--
Pat




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