Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On 8 Sep 2008, at 00:05, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> >>>> Adding 2 to age in 2.2.8 will not help, as it will change the soname >>>> again. >>> >>> Maybe we should pull the release, and put out 2.2.6.1? >> >> How does one pull a release? I don't think it is possible. > > Replace the tarball with a message that says. D'oh! Sorry, this > release was stillborn, please get this other one instead.... > >> Does FSF recommend 'a', 'b', 'c' notation for fixed releases, or does >> it recommend adding another decimal place? > > Actually, I think they recommend 'a' suffix IIRC...
Hi Gary, The only other option to creating a new tarball etc, is to announce somewhere that packagers should create a symlink from the old soname to the new one. Such an announcement is likely to be missed by some packagers though. Sorry. Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com