[EPEL-devel] Heads up: glib2 update in RHEL 7.1

[Orion Poplawski]

RHEL 7.1 updates glib2 from 2.36.3 to 2.40.0.  This adds a number of symbols.
 Unfortunately glib2 does not appear to be using symbol versioning so no
automatic rpm provides/requires are added to avoid incompatibilities.  This is
particularly an issue in times like these between the RHEL point release and
until CentOS, ScientificLinux, et. al. release their updates. This has already
hit one user of qtwebkit:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202735

You may want to make sure your glib2 using packages end up with a requires
glib2 >= 2.40.0.

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