On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:53 AM Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> wrote:


On 08/14/2018 01:29 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:32 PM Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm going to rebase poppler in rawhide to poppler-0.67.0 now.
>>
>> There are several API changes and soname bump of the base library
>> libpoppler.so.*.
>>
>> I've checked all packages which depend on the libpoppler.so.* and have
>> backported/prepared fixes to reflect poppler's API changes.
>>
>> Unfortunately, libreoffice does not build currently (#1615616). But I've
>> decided to push the rebase though because branching will happen today
>> and I could not do chain build after that for F29.
>>
>> Btw, if your package use the unstable API (headers from poppler-devel),
>> could you consider to change it to use a stable API (glib, qt, C++)?
>>
>>
>>
> Please do not push this change today. We are going to branch F29 and I'd
> really like to not see a whole lot of breakage at the same time.
>
> It would be best to work out the kinks in Rawhide and then merge them all
> at once to F29 between Branching and Beta Freeze.

Hi,

I've already pushed the change to rawhide at night. The only problems
are LibreOffice and GDAL now. They don't build from source even without
the rebase of poppler.
I'm looking at the GDAL now and I see that Caolan has pushed new
LibreOffice to rawhide.

The point of announcing an impending soname bump is to give your downstreams time to adapt to it. Announcing it and doing it the same day is not helpful and forces your dependents to react immediately. Please provide at least a few days' response time before pushing soname bumps in the future.