Hi,
On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 12:06 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Jansson (a JSON library) in Rawhide is out of date compared to
> upstream. The latest version in Rawhide is jansson-2.13.1-10.fc42
> and
> the latest upstream is 2.14 (released 3 years ago).
>
> I am planning to update this assuming no objections. But the update
> isn't completely straightforward as they introduced symbol versioning
> upstream and I suspect this will break any existing users.
are you sure about this?
I think introducing symbol versioning to a library is backward
compatible and does not require relinking.
>
> [But also, the reason I want to update is _because_ of symbol
> versioning. We are modifying libguestfs to change from Jansson to
> json-c, but they share a common symbol (json_object_get) and without
> symbol versioning, if you mix programs using the two libraries it can
> (always? randomly?) call the wrong function. I think with both
> libraries using symbol versioning this cannot happen.]
glib-json also has conflicting symbols with libjansson. Symbol
versioning is long overdue. Thank you for working on this.
>
> I think the list of packages that need to be rebuilt is:
>
> $ dnf repoquery --qf '%{NAME}' '--disablerepo=*' '--enablerepo=*-
> source' --arch=src --whatrequires jansson-devel | sort -u
>
> asterisk
> binutils
> certmonger
> cjose
> cptutils
> ctags
> cyrus-imapd
> dmlite
> emacs
> freeipa
> guestfs-tools
> HandBrake
> jose
> libgamerzilla
> libguestfs
> libjwt
> libnftnl
> libteam
> mod_auth_openidc
> mod_md
> mtr
> NetworkManager
> network-manager-applet
> nftables
> obs-studio
> obs-studio-freeworld
> opendnssec
> plotnetcfg
> proxmark3
> rng-tools
> samba
> sssd
> suricata
> unrealircd
> uwsgi
> vdr-epg2vdr
> vdr-epg-daemon
> vdr-osd2web
> vdr-tvscraper
> vdr-weatherforecast
> virt-v2v
> yara
>
> Some big hitters in there like binutils, emacs & samba.
>
> I will attempt this in a side tag.
>
> Let me know if any problems or objections here.
>
> Rich.
>
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