https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905710
Bug ID: 1905710
Summary: Review Request: libffi3.1 - Compatibility package for
libffi SONAME bump.
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: nob...@fedoraproject.org
Reporter: codon...@redhat.com
QA Contact: extras...@fedoraproject.org
CC: package-review@lists.fedoraproject.org
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL: https://pagure.io/libffi3.1/blob/master/f/libffi3.1.spec
SRPM URL: https://pagure.io/libffi3.1
Description: A portable foreign function interface library
Fedora Account System Username: codonell
This package spec is largely a clone of the existing libffi spec file since we
are cloning the libffi package to provide a compatibility package for the
upstream SONAME bump.
The best user experience is guaranteed with a compatibility package that
provides the "libffi.so.6" SONAME, otherwise you can't even init a mock chroot
because p11-kit requires libffi.so.6, but the newer libffi-3.4-1 will only
provide "libffi.so.8."
DJ Delorie and I have been working on this SONAME transistion strategy and we
have already tested the following packages:
p11-kit
python3.9
glib2
gobject-introspection
pygobject3
guile22
wayland
llvm
all built with libffi3.1 and libffi (experimental upgrade to 3.4).
Without a libffi3.1 it is not easily possible to upgrade to libffi-3.4-1 (it
could be done in a side-tag but the compatibility package offers the best user
experience for other binaries that rely on the older SONAME).
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