On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:20:34AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 02:09:29PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen (smooge(a)gmail.com) said:
> > I don't think we have one. We have dealt with the older policy where
> > things conflicted with 5.1 but not 5.0.
> >
> > What exactly are the packages having problems?
>
> gtkhtml3 was rebased in 5.2, changing ABI. We can ship (in EPEL)
> a gtkhtml38 package, but it will conflict at the file level with
> gtkhtml3 from 5.1 and earlier.
Would that be an issue? And I think that it should be in RHEL 5.2, not
in EPEL? But I am not a customer, so...
Ok, I am dumb. Still, why didn't RHEL people add the gtkhtml38 package in
RHEL 5.2? This is quite strange, isn't RHEL supposed to keep ABI
compatibility?
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Pat