Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:34:07AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> They're libs used by GNOME -- that's not the same thing as being GNOME libs,
> at least for this question, because they're also used by lots of *other*
> stuff that's not GNOMEish in the least. (Like, say, KDE.)
The fact that they're used by non GNOME projects is another issue. The
fact is that libxml started as the gnome xml library, and is still
hosted by the gnome project.
> > and they also got a lot of testing (at least libxml2), considering
> > how many times the libxml2 2.6.15 breakage has been reported.
>
> What breakage is that?
A breakage in validation reporting that made scrollkeeper crash if you
were using experimental libxml2.
See bug #279040.
> > The only "problem", is that they have an updated shlibs, because the
> > libs expose more symbols, even though these symbols, as usual, are not
> > likely to be used by any application for a while (i.e. stuff compiled
> > against libxml2 2.6.16 is binary compatible with the current testing
> > version).
>
> Whether or not you predict anyone will be using these symbols, the problem
> is the same: the shlibs for the package need to be updated, which means any
> packages that depend on these libraries will subsequently be blocked in
> unstable until this package makes it into testing. Neither libxml2 nor
> libxslt1.1 is affected by the current freeze, and neither is complicated
> enough in its own right to warrant saying "no" here, but the reverse-depends
> tree is deep enough that you'll need to give the maintainers of those
> reverse-deps a heads-up, and address their concerns, before uploading.
Anyways, I'm still waiting for libxml2 to come out from NEW. Then I'll
wait another week or two before pushing to unstable.
Thanks
Mike
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