On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 22:18 +0100, Petr Machata wrote: > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 14:49 +0100, Petr Machata wrote: > >> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > It looks like there was a soname bump in boost yesterday. Boost affects > >> > enough stuff, that there really should have been a heads up message posted to > >> > the devel list about this. > >> > >> Yes, Denis Arnaud has kindly prepared a new release, but forgot to give > >> a yell. That said, it's been a ritual for about past three years that > >> with every Fedora there comes a point in time when boost breaks all its > >> clients. That much should be hardly surprising. > > > > Surprising, no, but it could certainly handled better. > > > > The intent of the requirement for a week's notice *in advance* is so > > dependent packages can get out ahead of checking if they'll work with > > the new library without adjustment, and if adjustment is needed, get it > > ready. So that when the bump lands, dependent packages can simply be > > quickly rebuilt, and Rawhide only has major dependency issues for a day > > or two, instead of two weeks while everyone runs around trying to adjust > > for the surprise changes. > > > > Really, for something with as many deps maintained by as many people as > > Boost, it should be required for the bump to be done in a tag and all > > It's maintained by me and Denis. The rest of the people are either > watchers, or bkoz, who formally owns boost, but really has stepped off > some time ago, or Deji, who was granted commit right for some one-off > ABI change in libmpich2, and whom I removed just now. I didn't mean that Boost is maintained by a lot of people - I meant that there are an awful lot of other packages, maintained by a lot of other people, that depend on Boost, and hence need updating when Boost gets bumped. Some API/ABI changes affect only one or two other dependent packages, often owned by the same person who owns the library, but that's definitely not the case when it comes to Boost. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
