On Tuesday, 23 August 2022 at 11:24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
[...]
> We haven't updated liburing for "a while", since April 2021 to
> liburing 2.0.  There have been several upstream versions since then,
> the latest is liburing 2.2, released in June.
> 
> In theory this version is compatible and uses symbol versions:
> 
> $ rpm -q --provides liburing
> liburing = 2.2-1.fc38
> liburing(x86-64) = 2.2-1.fc38
> liburing.so.2()(64bit)
> liburing.so.2(LIBURING_2.0)(64bit)
> liburing.so.2(LIBURING_2.1)(64bit)
> liburing.so.2(LIBURING_2.2)(64bit)
> 
> so in theory this is not an ABI break.  In practice I'm told that the
> API of liburing is not very stable.
> 
> TBH I don't really know how best to test this except to just do it.
> The packages that depend on liburing shouldn't have any RPM dependency
> problems (I already installed the update on my Rawhide machine), but
> it's possible they might break in subtle ways, which is in a way
> worse.  They are:
> 
> - ceph
> - folly
> - glusterfs
> - plocate
> - qemu
> - raft
> - rocksdb
> - root
> - samba
> 
> (so nothing important!)

;)

> I have the update prepared and ready to push to Rawhide, but open to
> suggestions if there is a better way to do this.

I'd suggest doing a mock, copr or scratch build and running abipkgdiff
comparing current rawhide and the updated binary packages. It'll tell
you if there are any subtle ABI differences.

Regards,
Dominik
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