On 2026-07-04 11:45, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 11:40:32AM +0200, Michael Grimm wrote:
Can we get databases/lmdb reverted to 0.93.5, and 1.0.0 added as a separate
origin?
+1
+1 - and then depending packages can decide how they can migrate, without
breaking user setups when running a naive "pkg upgrade"... (POLA).
gert
There are two different issues here, Migration and compatibility People
really need to get rid of the "I don't want to change" mindset
especially tracking head/master. POLA is not about that, we can't police
upstream projects and doing forks / extensive patching isn't reasonable
and neither what any other distro / package repo does. If upstream makes
changes users need to follow. We can apply POLA to projects we own but
expecting that to carry out to third party is obviously out of our
hands. What we can do is however to inform about breaking changes and
try to make the migration as painless as possible. I'm not suggesting
that we knowingly should break things just to the sake of it but on the
other hand these kind of issues have occurred before and will occur from
time to time. Compatibility As Arch people have noted there also seems
to be runtime and (?) build issues, that however needs to be addressed.
Given that time frame and affected ports it's likely a better idea to
revert the commit and create a meta PR for upgrading 1.x instead of
having multiple versions in parallel.
What can we learn from this? Changelogs are important and to be fair one
could argue that this information wasn't easily obtainable / well
communicated.
https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/P347LVJF4UAA3XL7D7ITJGJI54UAARXC/
https://www.lmdb.tech --> "Technical Information" (below download
button) --> More documentation --> "Upgrading From Release
0.9"http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/upgrading.html
No CI pre commit doesn't help, "exp-run"-ish requirement/checks and
expecting a committer to have access to two different releases and at
least three arch's (amd64, aarch64 and if possible i386 (I know its
being phased out)) is a bit of a tall order, we're all humans and we can
miss things. Best regards, Daniel
