On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pin...@pingoured.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:33:40AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > Just a heads up that I am building a libspiro update in rawhide (only) > > > that has a soname bump in it. The only thing in Fedora that uses > > > libspiro is fontforge and I intend to rebuild that against it as well. > > > > Is it really worth announcing the soname bump in such a case? A library > only > > used by one application can effectively be treated as private, > especially if > > you're taking care of the rebuild. > > > > (I'm pointing this out because this isn't the first soname bump of this > kind > > being announced.) > > While you make a point, I prefer to see announce for every soname bump > (including those with very little dependency) than taking the risk of > missing > one (which of course would be an important one). > > I concur, speaking not only as someone who's missed dependencies before and the announcement helped me avoid breakage, but as someone who sometimes needs to run make clean ; make on personal projects and/or rebuild personal RPMs in these cases. > My 2cts, > Pierre > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie
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