Re: Dependency bump for GGZ



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Josselin Mouette <joss debian org> wrote:
> Le dimanche 18 janvier 2009 à 14:52 -0600, Jason D. Clinton a écrit :
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me jasonclinton com> wrote:
>> > Gnome Games has bumped the GGZ dependency from 0.0.14 to 0.99.5 due to
>> > this library breaking API. It appears that no distro. (at least Debian
>> > and Fedora) has decided to do versioned soname for libggz so we are
>> > forced bump dependency to continue to be able to build in these
>> > distros. See bug #551455.
>> >
>> > I'll take the liberty of updating l.g.o
>>
>> As an addendum, upstream is really unhappy with the soname situation
>> in both Debian and Fedora. If upstream can manage to get either of
>> these to revert the change to 0.99.5 or make it a soname bump instead,
>> Gnome Games will revert to 0.0.14. I'll update this list as I hear
>> more.
>
> For the record, if the soname has not changed between the two while the
> ABI is broken, this is a clear violation of our policy so we'll have no
> trouble to get it changed.

Alright, Gnome Games is reverted to 0.0.14. Updating all the relevant
pages. Fedora will have to revert their rawhide version to continue to
build.

Bump retracted.


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