On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:57 AM Anthony Green <gr...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello -- I'm the current Fedora maintainer for libffi, as well as the
> upstream author/maintainer.   I'm looking for help with libffi
> packaging.  Specifically, we need to roll out a new ABI-breaking
> release (required for ARM64 and Intel CET support), and I don't have
> the volunteer time available to create the requisite compat packages,
> monitor all of the rebuilds, etc.   It would be best if this person
> had some Fedora packaging experience under their belt, given some of
> the complexities involved and the criticality of libffi to the whole
> platform.
>

While API/ABI breaking changes within a release is discouraged, it's still
might be the right thing to do. You could create a side tag and make sure
all dependent packages have been rebuilt or ported over first, and them
merge them back in with a single bodhi update.

Thanks,
Richard
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