On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Richard Shaw wrote:
Per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539386 I've now been bitten twice after being asked to update a package in EPEL.
Per this version this was a patch level update but it still breaks applications so I'm wondering if it would just be best to only supply a static library, at least in EPEL...
I can't speak for EPEL, but in Fedora I'd rather you just bump the soname and rebuild the applications using the library when it is needed.
That's what I did but on EPEL a lot of people develop their own business applications, which of course I can't and shouldn't rebuild, and in many cases they're "validated" so changing is very painful.
For now I reverted back to 0.5.1 in EPEL (with -static subpackage) and created a COPR for those who want to work with the newer version.
Thanks, Richard