Re: Seeking co-maintainer for libffi package

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:57 AM Anthony Green <green(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello -- I'm the current Fedora maintainer for libffi, as well as
> the
>  upstream author/maintainer.   I'm looking for help with libffi
>  packaging.  Specifically, we need to roll out a new ABI-breaking
>  release (required for ARM64 and Intel CET support), and I don't have
>  the volunteer time available to create the requisite compat packages,
>  monitor all of the rebuilds, etc.   It would be best if this person
>  had some Fedora packaging experience under their belt, given some of
>  the complexities involved and the criticality of libffi to the whole
>  platform.
>  
While API/ABI breaking changes within a release is discouraged, it's still
might be the right thing to do. You could create a side tag and make sure
all dependent packages have been rebuilt or ported over first, and them
merge them back in with a single bodhi update.

Thanks,
Richard