On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 16:18:34 +0200,
Petr Machata <pmachata(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> writes:
> I don't remember seeing a soname bump announcement for boost and since
> for branched it went from 1.46.0 to 1.46.1 and then back to 1.46.0, I don't
> want to start rebuilding stuff if this is going to happen in rawhide too.
It's not our plan te revert this in rawhide, but we plan to rebase again
later in the cycle, probably for 1.48. I see that nothing has been
rebuilt against 1.46.1 yet, so what I could do is keep the patchlevel
and just drop the SONAME back to 1.46.0. The changes between 1.46.0 and
1.46.1 _should_ be safe--not quite safe enough for pushing to F15, in my
opinion, but rawhide has seen worse. That way boost users shouldn't
have to rebuild twice.
I don't have a problem rebuilding twice. I'd like to get a heads up that
a soname bump is comming, rather than finding out after the fact. This makes
scheduling the work a bit easier. Boost is used by enough stuff, that I think
a heads up to devel is warranted.
In this particular case I was concerned, because of the previous reversion in
F15 and didn't want to make things worse by starting rebuilds before I
knew this change was going to stick.