On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently release libffi 3.0.11, and ABI changes are mandating a .so > number change. Despite the ABI change, I suspect that simple rebuilds > are all that will be required for dependent packages. > > The ABI changes are simply: > > 1. Some internal debugging functions that should never have been > exported have been removed: > > void ffi_stop_here(void) > void ffi_assert(char *expr, char *file, int line) > void ffi_type_test(ffi_type *a, char *file, int line) > > 2. A new function has been introduced to support > variadic functions (ffi_prep_cif_var). > > Libtool's guidelines for .so versioning mandate that I move from > libffi.so.5.0.11 to libffi.so.6.0.0 (because functions have been > removed). > > There are more than a handful of packages that depend on libffi, so > I'm looking for advice on when to make this change. Also, is there a > convenient way to determine which packages in all of Fedora depend on > libffi? I would like to notify the maintainers that rebuilds will be > required. Or is there some other way to do this? Around 51 packages according to "repoquery --whatrequires libffi.so.5" but it's likely a little late in F-17 for something like that unless it does something quite special in terms of performance or security. I suggest this is something to push to F-18. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
