On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:50:27AM -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
It doesn't seem seem like a good idea to update a package that can cause some major ABI/API breakage only 2 weeks before the Beta freeze, without evaluating the fallout from potential broken deps. This really should have been not only announced, but discussed before doing the soname bump.
Ok, I can see I've screwed on several levels here (underestimating how many packages depend on boost, not realizing how far into release cycle Fedora is). So I can have boost un-tagged by releng right away, and break the next rawhide to come.
Still, while I see some big packages (abiword, inkscape), I suspect that most incompatibilities can be fixed simply (i.e. mostly sed-style fixes), and I can help people with fixing their build failures (attaching Miro patch right away).
PM