gdbm soname change in Rawhide, package rebuild needed

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:19 +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
> Dne 10.3.2010 19:14, Jesse Keating napsal(a):
> > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:00 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 18:25 +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
> >> Since buildroots are broken once this change gets into the build roots,
> >> I'm working on the perl and python rebuilds so that others can get
> >> going.
> >
> > On second thought, this isn't going to work, as perl is part of the
> > build group which we install into every buildroot, and we can't install
> > it due to gdbm missing deps.  We'll have to introduce a compat-gbdm
> > temporarily to get perl/python et al rebuilt.  We are untagging the new
> > gdbm in the mean time.
> 
> Rawhide now contains the new gdbm-1.8.3. The compat-gdbm package is now 
> also available, and it provides libgdbm.so.2, so packages work without 
> the rebuild.
> 
> However, it makes no sense to use compat-gdbm for a long time, as the 
> API is the same, and no source code changes are needed in packages using 
> gdbm-1.8.0 to use gdbm-1.8.3.
> 
> Karel

I don't see much problem with removing compat-gdbm once all our
dependent packages are rebuilt.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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