Coordinating libffi upgrade

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:49:01PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> > On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 16:04 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > 
> > > It looks like libffi is emitted into the minimal buildroot (rpm-build -> 
> > > pkg-config -> glib2 -> libffi), so during the transition we'll need to 
> > > build both sonames of libffi.  It might be worth keeping a compat-libffi 
> > > around for a release or two anyway, the current soname has a _long_ history.
> > 
> > Or just apply the patch from here:
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-April/165871.html
> > And skip tons of pain for all the libffi consumers at the tiny cost of a
> > stub symbol.
> > 
> > Hm, no links to the patch in the archives.  Well, I'll attach it again,
> > since I still have it sitting around in my libffi git checkout.
> 
> And note that whatever you do, F-19 is open for doing it now - you don't 
> need to wait until F-18 ships...
> 
And has been since August.  Development starts when rawhide and F-next
branch.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule

-Toshio
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