[EPEL-devel] Current update policy?

[Dave Johansen]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:

> Dave Johansen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kevin Fenzi
> > <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:00:35 -0700
> >> Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is that really true? The Qt 5 package in EPEL 6 has been updated
> >> > several times and I don't recall ever seeing an
> >> > email/announcement/etc.
> >>
> >> Were the upgrades incompatible? You have to manually intervene?
>
> > Honestly, on the machines I'm using, I installed 5.2 and haven't updated
> > since 5.3 was released because I didn't want to rebuild and re-test all
> of
> > my stuff, but my understanding of the following is that the upgrades are
> > not completely compatible:
> > http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/versions/qt.html
>
> Fwiw, Qt upstream takes both api and abi stability pretty seriously
> (official public interfaces).  If you experience any concrete
> incompatibilities after upgrading, it's arguably a bug worth fixing.
>

Yes, but doesn't the change in the name of the .so require a rebuild?
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