Heads up: bumping libnl to v3 in rawhide/F17 soon

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 12:52 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> It certainly has a different soname, so yeah, we can have a -compat
> package.  But that would still mean a ton of stuff busted for rebuilds
> while packages get fixed up.  A few upstream packages already work with
> libnl2, and the delta between 2 and 3 is hugely smaller than from 1 to
> 3.

I don't think rebuilds are as big an issue as broken compatibility. I'd
recommend carrying compat-libnl1 for at least one Fedora release while
we port the affected applications to libnl 3.
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