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