On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 18:55 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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 ?

It didn't look too bad to me, but you as a person that actually does the
builds might have a different opinion on that ;-)

> 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.

The point of the libmodplug update was to fix the compatibility with
EPEL, because they are building their stuff against the latest version
of libmodplug and the still have stuff built against the old one, so
people were having problems because of this...

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev


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