Re: Problem with latest libnl 1.0 release (versioning mess)

[Thomas Graf <tgraf suug ch>]

* Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 2008-01-13 01:52
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 01:51 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > * Michael Biebl <biebl debian org> 2008-01-10 22:53
> > > Thomas released libnl 1.0 today and I just noticed that this will make 
> > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES fail, because 1.0 < 1.0-pre8.
> > > 
> > > This means, NM in it's current state (and other projects that use a 
> > > versioned pkg-config check for libnl) will fail to ./configure and compile.
> > > 
> > > So what should we do about this mess?
> > > Imho it would be easiest if Thomas just released 1.1 right away but I'm 
> > > open for other suggestions.
> > 
> > I have no objections to releasing 1.1 immediately. There was a
> > serious bug reported today which calls for a new release anyway.
> 
> Go go go :)  Does the fix for that bug change API at all?

Version 1.1 has been released. The API was extended but not broken.

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