2011/3/21 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx>: > =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Piotrowski?= <mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 2011/3/21 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Now I have no problem with pushing such a change into rawhide, but what >>> shall I do about Fedora 15? It doesn't seem very nice to force a soname >>> bump after alpha. On the other hand, the alternatives seem worse: >>> >>> * never upgrade F15 past mysql 5.5.9 > >> Not very interesting solution :) > > I agree, particularly since 5.5.x is still pretty immature --- there > are likely to be significant bug fixes coming down the pike. Backporting security/important fixes can be very painful. > >>> * revert F15 to 5.1.x release series > >> Please _don't_ do this. > > No, I don't want to do that either. Also, on reflection it would > *still* require a recompile to do that, since we hacked some of the > exported symbols in the process of reducing libmysqlclient's list of > exposed symbols. So that choice seems fairly useless. > > We might be able to get away with forcing the old soname version to > continue being used, but that would mean F15 diverges from pretty > much everybody else. Can wrong ABI version cause problems in other apps? > > On the whole I think a forced recompile of dependent packages might be > the best solution, painful as it is. > > regards, tom lane > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
