Hi Siddhesh, On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:56:47 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > I wanted to know if there are any other only-static libraries out there > and how they maintainers manage releases. I had packaged this to build > Shotwell 0.6.x but I understand there are a couple of other apps too > that build against this now. Do i have to keep track of all of them and > coordinate releases with them, i.e. announce an update, have them test > and then push a build? Or do I just go ahead and build in rawhide and > then wait for someone to complain? I maintain llvm, which *used* to be static-only. The guideline: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ PackagingGuidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries does not discuss update policies, but luckily for LLVM they update on a predictable schedule, once a year, and the dependent packages normally are quite good at keeping track. I'd say do try a rebuild of affected packages yourself, and notify the maintainers only in case there is a breakage and coordinate on what to do (otherwise they'd get an unpleasant FTBFS report). I just noticed, actually, that shotwell incorrectly depends on LibRaw- devel rather than LibRaw-static. Fixing it now :P Incidentally, does anyone know how to keep track of which package lists something as a *build* requirement? repoquery has --whatrequires and --tree-whatrequires, and has an --srpm option that seems promising, but does not seem to do the trick. Best Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | IRC: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
