pari soname bump in Rawhide

Andrey Ponomarenko aponomarenko at rosalab.ru
Tue Jul 3 16:06:23 UTC 2012


Hello,

Paul Howarth wrote:
> I have just done the long-awaited update of pari from 2.3.x to 2.5.x in
> Rawhide, which has associated soname and API changes.

I've added PARI to the upstream tracker, so one can view API changes 
here: http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/pari.html

API compatibility report between 2.3.5 and 2.5.0: 
http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/pari/2.3.5_to_2.5.0/compat_report.html

PkgDiff report between 2.3.5 and 2.5.0: 
http://upstream-tracker.org/pkgdiff_reports/pari/2.3.5_to_2.5.0/changes_report.html

> The delay was
> mainly due to there being no movement upstream in porting perl-Math-Pari
> to the new API, so I have given up on that and introduced a libpari23
> package that perl-Math-Pari is now built against.
>
> As a result of the introduction of the libpari23 package, there should
> be no broken dependencies caused by this update, but new builds of
> packages using libpari will use the new version. We're not envisaging
> there being any big issues with this but if there are, please report
> them on the pari upgrade ticket (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/821191) and
> we'll try to help.
>
> Paul.

-- 
Andrey Ponomarenko, ROSA Lab.





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