How to handle soname bump properly?
Peter Lemenkov
lemenkov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 15:30:55 UTC 2008
2008/7/12, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>:
> Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> > Consider, we got library libfoo and dependent utility bar.
> >
> > If I updated library libfoo (successfully built with soname
> > increased, and ready to hit updates-testing via Bodhi), then how
> > should I udate bar?
> This is something that requires some help from rel-eng. You would
> build libfoo and then mail rel-eng at fedoraproject.org asking for a
> build root override for libfoo (providing the full n-e-v-r or cvs tag
> for the libfoo build you want to be in the build root) and often some
> brief justification for the request (like, "I need this to build bar
> against in order to fix outstanding bugs").
>
> They sprinkle some pixie dust and let you know when it's done. Then
> you can build bar against the new libfoo and push both of them as a
> single update to updates-testing via bodhi.
>
> (Of course, you should already have done some testing of this in
> rawhide and locally for the affected stable release and thought hard
> about whether a soname bump in the stable release warranted -- that
> the benefits of the bump outweigh the drawbacks.)
Thanks!
Do you mind if I grab your post (partially) and bury it in Swamps of
Fedora-Wiki?
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With best regards!
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