On Thursday, 11 August 2022 at 19:07, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:08 AM Susi Lehtola <
> jussileht...@fedoraproject.org> wrote
> 
> 
> > gsl will be updated from version 2.6 to 2.7.1 which changes the
> > soversion from .25 to .27 in one week. List of dependent packages
> >
> 
> The list of deps is pretty long so the likelihood of having a package
> that's not compatible is quite high. Have you done an ABI comparison
> between the current package and the update? (fedabipkgdiff or
> abi-compilance-checker)
> 
> It may also be advantageous to setup a COPR temporarily to test ahead of
> the official build and give maintainers a chance to update/patch. This
> would help minimize the time a side tag is open.

It might help to provide a compatibility gsl2.6 package to ease the
transition if there are incompatible API changes as well.

Regards,
Dominik
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