On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 22:45, pouar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:28:48 -0700 > Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 06:21 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 02:00:42PM -0500, pouar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > So is someone else is going to do the checking if the reverse > > > > dependencies > > > > work with the new version or do I have to do that? > > ] > > > > *Somebody* has to do it. If *you* can at least start doing that, that > > > would be great and will probably make the whole process smoother. > > > Milan's point is that we cannot say that you *have* to do it, because > > > you're just a volunteer. > > > > > > If you have the time, I'd suggest building the updated brotli version > > > locally, installing it locally (including the -devel package), and > > > rebuilding all the dependent packages locally. All using 'fedpkg > > > local'. > > .] > > > > And I'm gonna keep pointing out, since everyone seems to be skipping > > over it, that the update *may not bump the soname at all*. In which > > case no rebuilds are needed. You should check that before checking > > anything else. > > Well the minor version and the soname of the library itself changed but the > major version and the sonames of the symlinks pointing to the library > remained the same. Also 2 fields in BrotliDistanceParams changed positions, > but I'm not sure whether this is exposed to other packages or not. You can use rpmsodiff and the tools in libabigail package to check the ABI and API differences. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx