Re: F29 System Wide Change: Binutils 2.31

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:47:04AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Zbigniew,
> 
> >> Do you foresee any significant issues with this version upgrade in the 
> >> mass rebuild? 
> 
> No.  I am currently testing the 2.31 sources on the FSF branch, but so far
> everything looks good.
> 
> >> Anything in particular that maintainers and upstreams
> >> should looks at?
> 
> I hope not.  There have been problems in the past when rebasing the binutils,
> so I cannot guarantee that there will be no issues, but I will do my best to
> make sure that the change does not cause any problems, and that maintainers
> and upstreams do not even know that it has happened.

OK, good to hear that.

> > Also, what is the relationship between
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS230
> > and 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS231
> 
> BINUTILS230 was the change request to bring in FSF binutils 2.30.  This
> is the version that is currently used in rawhide.
> 
> BINUTILS231 is the change request to bring in FSF binutils 2.31.  The
> 2.31 release has not actually happened yet - it is scheduled for July 7
> - but if it does happen in time then I would like to get it into rawhide
> before the mass rebuild happens.  Then if there are any problems they
> should show up quickly.

But changes are specific to a Fedora release. If users see both changes
in the release notes for F29 they will be justifiably confused. So I think
BINUTILS230 should be automatically dropped (superseded) if BINUTILS231
makes it into F29.

Zbyszek
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