Re: Upgrading libffi

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Il giorno lun, 06/01/2020 alle 18.11 -0500, Anthony Green ha scritto:
> I released a new version of libffi a month or so ago, the first one
> in 5
> years.  There's an ABI change that was unavoidable in order to
> accommodate the aarch64 port, and the sonumber was bumped.
> 
> I am also the Fedora package maintainer for libffi, but admit that I
> don't have the time or expertise required to manage an ABI-breaking
> libffi upgrade in Fedora (assuming the temporary requirement of a
> 'compat' package, etc), as there are many packages that depend on
> this
> library.
If you know all depending packages will get updated in an acceptable
time to the new ABI, you can wait for this to happen, and then rebuild
all in rawhide.

> Should I simply orphan libffi and hope that somebody picks it
> up?  I'm
> looking for the best path forward.
I don't think this would be the best solution! And you are surely the
best packager of your own software.

> Thanks! 
> 
> AG
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> 

Ciao
Guido
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