Please let others know if you build a update that ships with a bumped .soname

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue Sep 9 14:57:32 CEST 2008


On Monday, 08 September 2008 at 16:28, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We have no dep-checker script (yet) that's running regularly for RPM 
> Fusion.  Thus: If you update a package which contains libs (like for 
> example the recently updated x264 package) which have a higher .soname 
> than before then *pretty please* mail the list and tell us about so 
> things can be fixed quickly. Even better: also send mails to all the 
> maintainers that take care of packages that depend on the old library. 
> Otherwise things might be broken for a few days and users will run into 
> trouble -- we should do our best to avoid that. I'd say that should be 
> way easier then in Fedora because we are a way small group of people.

Sorry, I only asked on IRC. My bad.

Regards,
R.

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