On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:41:16PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 01:38:02AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Sadly, due to the mipsel binaries being built much later than for > > other arches, kdelibs now depends on the aspell transition too. > > FWIW, the flac6 transition depends on gtk+2.0 for a similar reason > > (timidity-interfaces-extra is built against gtk 2.6 in mipsel only). > Is the release still so far away, that is not worth telling maintainers > not to upload libraries that require transition? I understand we don't > have tools to make a "shlibs freeze", and even if such existed, we > can't stop maintainers from uploading libs with changed abi without > changing shlibs... Still I think it would be worth reminding > maintainers that libary transitions will slow down the release. This has been indicated before in past release team updates, and nothing has changed since then which would eliminate the reasons for wanting ABI changes to be coordinated with the release team first. Clearly, this is something that we need to reiterate. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature