On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, that's an interesting report.
>

Yeah, I've found it to be very helpful on a number of
packages, especially ones that do not manage API/ABI compatibility, like
collada. I can use this tool to let me know if I need to request rebuilds
of dependents.



> I think that these are all harmless, though.  Most are cases of new API
> calls being added.  In one case, a parameter was renamed (truly of no
> consequence), and in two cases a default argument was turned into no longer
> a default.
>
> In all cases,  old apps that switch to link against the new library should
> be fine without recompilation.  It's possible, in the case of the changing
> default argument, that if you recompile the app source and you happened to
> rely on that default argument, you'll need to patch it to pass the
> argument.  This change was not intentional.  But I'm pretty sure it
> happened several releases ago, not in the latest couple updates, so I'm
> tempted to not worry about it unless you think it's important to change it
> again to restore the default.
>
> I'll be more careful in the future about not changing default parameter
> values in release branches, I didn't really mean to do that.
>

No problem. I still think the only direct dependency in Fedora is Blender
but I'll check just to be sure.

Thanks,
Richard
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