any objections to BLIS soname bump in el7?

[Dave Love]

I'd like to upgrade the el7 blis package (v0.4) to the latest version
(v0.6), which has a soname bump.  It's not currently required by
anything else in EPEL, and the BLAS compatibility shims won't change.
Any objection?

The current version has a potential security problem from using popen,
and is missing optimizations.  (BLIS is what you want for AVX512 BLAS,
in particular, at least until OpenBLAS sorts that out.)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 06:26, Dave Love  wrote:
> I'd like to upgrade the el7 blis package (v0.4) to the latest version
> (v0.6), which has a soname bump.  It's not currently required by
> anything else in EPEL, and the BLAS compatibility shims won't change.
> Any objection?
>
> The current version has a potential security problem from using popen,
> and is missing optimizations.  (BLIS is what you want for AVX512 BLAS,
> in particular, at least until OpenBLAS sorts that out.)

I will bring this up at the meeting today, but I don't have any
objections as you have posted you are doing it and why on the list.
> epel-devel mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...

[Stephen John Smoogen]

Brought up at the meeting and there were no objections to doing this. Thank you.

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 09:34, Stephen John Smoogen  wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 06:26, Dave Love  wrote:
> > I'd like to upgrade the el7 blis package (v0.4) to the latest version
> > (v0.6), which has a soname bump.  It's not currently required by
> > anything else in EPEL, and the BLAS compatibility shims won't change.
> > Any objection?
> >
> > The current version has a potential security problem from using popen,
> > and is missing optimizations.  (BLIS is what you want for AVX512 BLAS,
> > in particular, at least until OpenBLAS sorts that out.)
>
> I will bring this up at the meeting today, but I don't have any
> objections as you have posted you are doing it and why on the list.
> > epel-devel mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.

[Dave Love]

Stephen John Smoogen  writes:
> Brought up at the meeting and there were no objections to doing this. Thank you.

Thanks, but I was really interested in uses outside Fedora packages,
though I don't know of any for the non-BLAS interface, and there's
probably no good place to ask.

If you're enlightened enough to run an HPC system mainly off packaging,
users' own binaries are still affected by sonames.  [Rant about ELF
versioning etc. elided.]