On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 17:23 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 22. 11. 24 17:14, Paul Wouters wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > There seems to be an issue that is stalled with respect to the > > protobuf > > version packaged in fedora: > > > > See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/protobuf/pull-request/28 > > > > Updating it breaks stuff, but keeping it at the current old version > > also > > breaks stuff. > > > > One solution is to create two versions, as offered in the PR above, > > but > > this has not seen any action yet. > > > > I'm in the camp of needing a newer protobuf in rawhide/F41 due to > > other > > packages needing the newer version. (so in a way, I am happy to > > break > > the old stuff over breaking the new stuff as is the case now). > > > > It would be good to have a discussion here followed by a plan to > > resolve > > this issue. If that means doing two protobuf versions, I'm willing > > to > > help with that as well. > Yes, having multiple packages with different versions is usually the > way to go. > > See e.g. python-pytest7. +1 , move the actual version to one compat package, for example protobuf3.19 package , update protobuf if any package fail to rebuild , build it against compat package Waiting for all packages be compatible with new version , may be a huge task and also may delay the updates , when one of these things happens I think we should provide a compat package . -- Sérgio M. B. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
