Headsup: new API breaking libgda on its way to rawhide

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

For those who have packages to rebuild because of the libgda change, libgda is 
in the F-9 buildroot now.

Regards,

Hans




Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on updating gnumeric to the stable 1.8.x version, however in 
> true gnumeric fashion (they've done this before). This requires the 
> development version of libgda-3.1.2.
> 
> This sounds worse then it is as the development version has mainly 
> received bugfix and for the mostly libgda-3.0.so.3 its fully compatible 
> with the 3.0.x series, the main reason why its a development series is 
> because the API of
> libgda-report-3.0.so.3 has changed (but not the soname ???).
> 
> This probably affects the following packages:
> gnome-python2-gda-0:2.19.1-11.fc8.i386
> libgdamm-0:2.9.8-1.fc8.i386
> gnumeric-1:1.6.3-13.fc8.i386
> libgnomedbmm-0:2.9.5-2.fc8.i386
> glom-0:1.6.5-1.fc8.i386
> gnumeric-1:1.6.3-12.fc8.i386
> libgnomedb-1:3.0.0-3.fc8.i386
> 
> I say probably because there are false positives in this list, the 
> libgda-3.0.1 .pc file contains:
> -lgda-report-3.0 -lgda-3.0 -lgdasql-3.0
> 
> Which causes all applications linking to libgda to depend on 
> gda-report-3.0, even though they most likely in reality do not.
> 
> One of the fixes in the new libgda-3.1.2, is that the .pc file now only 
> contains:
> -lgda-3.0 -lgdasql-3.0
> 
> And a new seperate libgda-report-3.0.pc has been added. For example of a 
> false positive caused by this, "rpmlint libgnomedb" gives the following 
> on a system with libgnomedb installed:
> libgnomedb.i386: W: unused-direct-shlib-dependency 
> /usr/lib/libgnomedb_graph-3.0.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib/libgda-report-3.0.so.3
> 
> So libngomedbmm most likely is a false positive to, still when in doubt 
> do a rebuild. I'll send another mail once the new libgda is available in 
> the buildroot.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Hans
>