libmtp soname change breakage (was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-02-07)

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> I've investigated a bit and have found #221114, where this was planned,
> albeit half-hearted. ABI breakage in stable branches ought to be announced
> on maintainers-list.

I don't think we're half-hearted, just amateurs...

We need a policy on how to handle this, saying something like "announce it 
on maintainer-list" etc.

> And it should be possible to prepare all packages in CVS and let one
> maintainer submit all build jobs.
>
> Further, notifying the extras signers about builds that are expected
> to break deps, if not pushed as a complete set, is highly encouraged.
> It would not be much work to enhance the pushscript with a bit of code
> that excludes build results based on src.rpm names.

Yes, this is exactly what is needed.

Linus