On 4/22/20 11:54 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 22. 04. 20 10:25, Susi Lehtola wrote: >> first, I'm sorry for a partial screw-up of the libxc soname bump >> announcement. >> It appears I am not alone: there are a few soname bumps each month, many of >> them >> still unannounced. > > I'd guess the biggest problem is that a lot of packages have soname bumps > hidden > by * globs. I.e. the maintainers update thei package without even realizing > they've bumped. > > This is getting better and better now, as more packages follow the rule not to > do this and use a more strict glob.
If the updates system caught changed sonames and triggered a warning / mails to affected package maintainers, this would not be a problem. >> This raises the question: shouldn't there be some sort of automatic tool for >> making soname bump announcements? It seems to me that this is a thing where >> computers easily beat humans: query for dependent packages, and shoot their >> maintainers an email. Maybe something that could go in fedpkg? Whenever >> changed >> sonames are detected, hold the update aside and start ringing the alarm >> bells? > > If somebody does this, note that there are basically 3 steps here: > > 1. > $ repoquery --repo=rawhide --source --whatrequires 'libfoo.so.1.0()(64bit)' > > 2. > https://pagure.io/fedora-misc-package-utilities/blob/master/f/find-package-maintainers > > 3. > Write and send e-mail. Three steps with manual labor instead one. A simple script could do this. > However, do you propose that this would happen automagically when the soname > is > bumped? What if I am already in touch with the dependent package owners? Then they get two emails notifying them about an upcoming soname bump. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
