[EPEL-devel] Current update policy?

[Dave Johansen]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 19 March 2015 at 08:43, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
> So we can't speak in circles for a bit longer... what .so are you seeing
> this happen with. Yes a changed so will break a build so if it is happening
> then it needs to be looked and dealt with. A library may update itself but
> not bump the .so
>

Sorry, I let this topic go for a while. It appears that the change in the
name of the .so didn't not require a rebuild for Qt Creator to continue
working, so I guess it's not a problem.

On another note, a bugzilla was just opened to request that Qt Creator be
updated inline with Qt 5 (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282668 ). I'm going to assume
that since it appears that everyone is ok with Qt 5 being updated in EPEL
that it's ok for Qt Creator to be updated as well.

Any objections?
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