Hello All! 2008/2/12, Ville Skyttä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 11 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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-b2927ee315835820eecc0883d05df0e1658ac388 > (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? 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. -- With best regards! _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
