PCRE 8.30 will break API

Petr Pisar ppisar at redhat.com
Fri Feb 10 12:29:42 UTC 2012


On 2012-02-10, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> that devel-packages require other devel-packages is OK
> but that you need ANY devel-package on machines having
> not installed any compiler/packaging-software not
>
You can have a tool which creates binding to native shared objects at
run-time. Then header files are good input for such generator. OTOH such
tool is usuallay a developer tool. This is just to show each rule hase
an exception.

> package-maintainers should have some CLEAN virtual
> machine to test if their new versions are introducing
> new dependencies
Packager can check it using rpmdiff on old and updated package.

-- Petr



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