Peter Lemenkov wrote:
Hello All!
2008/2/12, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi>:
> On Monday 11 February 2008, buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 7
> [...]
>> xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el5
>>
>> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/4: 5
> [...]
>> xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el4
> This is a soname bump from libxerces-c.so.27 to libxerces-c.so.28, and looks
> like it would break at least enigma, gdal, ovaldi, perl-XML-Xerces and
> xalan-c, not to mention local packages and other local builds.
>
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#head-b2927ee3158...
> (soname bump is an ABI change)
>
> I haven't seen even a "HEADS UP" mail about this. Without a very good
reason,
> this is far from acceptable in EPEL.
Agree - it should be dropped from EPEL-testing.
> BTW, looks like this update is on its way to Fedora too, it'll break even more
> packages there. And not even a heads up mail seen on fedora-devel either.
>
> Please explain?
I was about to post something along the same line and I actually mailed
perl-XML-Xerces upstream yesterday. There is no perl-XML-Xerces version
that can be compiled against xerces-c-2.8.0 and there won't be in the
near future.
http://marc.info/?l=xerces-p-dev&m=120277940726111&w=2
Sorry for this. I just forgot to mention about this incompatibility
during mass rebuilds for gcc4.3. I'll revoke requests for update from
F-7 and F-8 ASAP.
I want to keep new version for devel-branch though.
Even if the soname bump is a no-no for EPEL, there's no way to update
the perl package in Fedora either, so I'd be very grateful if the
xerces-c update never hits Fedora stable. I don't really care about
devel, but the perl package will likely remain broken there until
xerces-3.0.
Regards,
Xavier