Unannounced ABI bump in Rawhide: libarchive

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Nov 16 22:13:15 UTC 2011


Adam Williamson wrote:

> There appears to be a new libarchive package in Rawhide -
> libarchive-3.0.0-0.1.a.fc17 - which does an ABI bump (from
> libarchive.so.2 to libarchive.so.3). This was not announced ahead of
> time to devel@, as is required by policy:
> 
> 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_others_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages
> 
> Tomas, could you please alert devel@ (and ideally directly alert the
> maintainers of packages which depend on libarchive) when doing updates
> that break ABI/API in future?
> 
> devel list, be notified :)
> 
> [root at adam selinux-policy (master)]# repoquery --whatrequires
> ["libarchive.so.2()(64bit)"
> PackageKit-0:0.6.19-3.fc17.x86_64
> cmake-0:2.8.6-1.fc17.x86_64
> kdeutils-ark-6:4.7.3-1.fc17.x86_64

I took care these 3 yesterday, though had to (hopefully temporarily) disable 
PK-browser-plugin due to ftbfs issues against xulrunner-8

-- rex





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