On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 18:30 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > >> The multimedia-libraries are a complex case where one change can lead you >> into a dark alley without knowing where it leads to :-/ > > Isn't it just a couple of rebuilds that is necessary? > > I didn't expect anything to fail to build since the version update > didn't seem to have changes in the API.
The soname changed, that usually is a sign the ABI is not compatible and therefor it is not just a drop-in replacement. And yes, rebuilding all the packages that make use of it could be possible. The question is, do we really want this, just for this library update ? In the past we only considered to update multimedia libraries when there was a major rebuild going to happen for one or more multimedia applications anyway. Often because they needed it. That said, maybe there is a compelling reason for updating libmodplug (like it causes crashes even for people not needing it, or there is a security risk with the older version). In that case the effort to rebuild may very well be required. -- -- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, [email protected], http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
