On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 12:02 -0400, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:53:53PM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > > > As upstream didn't seriously consider the API breakage, json > > > 0.11->0.12 brings an issue of one function which is deprecated from > > > now on. This has caused bug 1123785 > > > > > so I will bump the soname manually > > > > I'm sorry, wat??? > > > > This is not your decision to make as packager. What will you do when upstream > > bump the soname? Do soname +1 again? > > > > If the udpate broke packages: > <snip> > > b) if it was only applied to rawhide (which to my > > understanding it should have), then just inform the maintainers of the > > affected > > packages that they have to rebuild or ask to do so yourself. > > No, that would completely defeat the point of the soname. If upstream > won’t use sonames or symbol versioning, it’s better for Fedora to > patch the software to use them properly, even if it means having to > continue to patch it. IIRC we do have various packages that have to > do this. If upstream is not using soname bumping then it would probably be better for fedora to use symbol versioning rather than arbitrarely bumping so names ... > (The tradeoff here is that if we don’t fix the soname/versioning > usage, locally-compiled software of _Fedora’s_ users, and packages in > _Fedora_ that didn’t get updated, are silently broken; it is a very bad tradeoff, esp given symbol versioning can be used to avoid that. > if we do fix the soname/versioning usage, other people’s _non-Fedora_ > packages may not be installable on Fedora easily. The best thing of > course is to have upstream use sonames/versioning correctly, and have > nothing broken; but if that’s not possible, a Fedora-specific fix does > seem much more preferable.) Making upstream aware of the problem and sending patches is always preferable. Educate them so the problem is solved once and for all. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
