Update ImageMagick in Fedora 16

Johannes Lips johannes.lips at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 4 15:25:12 UTC 2012


Tadej Janež wrote:
> Pavel,
> 
> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 20:21 +0400, Pavel Alexeev wrote:
> 
>> It is main reason why I request provenpackager rights. In fedora 17 it
>> was so painful because I several times asks build dependencies and
>> then ask help to push updates too.
>> I think in that turn now I can do all that myself, so it should be
>> smoother.
>>
>> As there around 6 security issues, I think update upstream release is
>> easiest, and furthermore robust way handle it.
> 
> I've seen you didn't listen to Tomáš's or Kalev's advice on not bumping
> the ImageMagick's soname in a stable release.
> 
> Furthermore, you didn't give any warning to the maintainers of the
> dependent packages (except for the message on this list).
> In my opinion, being a provenpackager is no excuse for not doing that.
> Please, use the packagename-owner at fedoraproject.org addresses to send
> out emails to the appropriate package maintainers.
> 
> For techne (one of the dependent packages which I maintain) you bumped
> the release from 0.2.3-2 to 0.2.3-3, which breaks upgrades to F-17 and
> rawhide.
> Is there a way to revert the change and make a 0.2.3-2.fc16.1 build?
The best practice now is to do a bump release in all newer branches. So
just bump the Version in fedora 17 and rawhide to 0.2.3-3.
The changelog entry could look like:
- bump release
or something similar.

Hope this helps

Johannes
> 
> Best regards,
> Tadej Janež
> 
> 



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