Re: Bug#297331: flac: New upstream version 1.1.2 is available
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:50:52PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I have packages prepared, but bear in mind that Debian is attempting to
> > stabilize for a release, and this would be very disruptive.
> >
> > Requesting input from the release team as to whether this would be a very
> > bad idea, or merely a bad idea. Note that this version increments sonames
> > of all libraries because certain ABIs changed (upstream) without an
> > increment in the last release.
>
> flac has a huge reverse dependency tree and its soname transitions take
> ages, often interacting with other large soname transitions in progress.
> I'd be inclined to say "very bad idea", unless there are overriding
> reasons why the new version is necessary.
The only realistic justification is that the version currently in sid has
potential ABI skew without changing its soname. There is a discussion in
#288876 about it.
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- mdz
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