On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Brian Evans <grkni...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Developers and ebuild writers should reference virtual/libmysqlclient > when linking against the libraries as the package will keep the > subslot the same as the soversion for easy rebuilds.
This isn't super-relevant to the news item itself, but is relevant for the developer community. Do you plan to make these changes to ebuilds yourself in a mass-update at the appropriate time, or do you expect maintainers to clean up their own ebuilds. If the latter, please provide instructions as to when/etc. -- Rich