major boost breakage (was Re: rawhide report: 20080812 changes)

[Petr Machata]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:32:39AM -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> Looks like this change:
> 
> > boost-1.36.0-0.1.beta1.fc10 --------------------------- * Mon Aug 11
> > 18:00:00 2008 Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> - 1.36.0-0.1.beta1
> > - Rebase to 1.36.0.beta1 - Drop boost-regex.patch and portions of
> > boost-gcc43.patch, port the rest - Automate SONAME tracking and bump
> > SONAME to 4 - Adjust boost-configure.patch to include
> > threading=single,multi explicitly
> 
> Created a ton of broken deps (below).  Are we supposed to rebuild
> everything or is this a packaging error?

Yes, I've bumped a soname.  In general, with boost updates there is no
guarantee of backwards compatibility.

> If a rebuild is required, I wish people could get into the habit of
> pre-announcing these kind of soname bumps, especially one's that
> impact a huge number of packages.  Maintainers need to be aware of the
> impact that their package might have on other dependent packages...

My mistake, I should have done that.  I'll remember to do it next time.

PM
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