Re: xerces-c soname bump

[Xavier Bachelot <xavier bachelot org>]

Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> 2008/2/12, Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>:
> > On Monday 11 February 2008, buildsys fedoraproject org wrote:
> > > Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 7
> > [...]
> > >     xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el5
> > >
> > > Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/4: 5
> > [...]
> > >     xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el4
> > This is a soname bump from libxerces-c.so.27 to libxerces-c.so.28, and looks
> > like it would break at least enigma, gdal, ovaldi, perl-XML-Xerces and
> > xalan-c, not to mention local packages and other local builds.
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#head-b2927ee315835820eecc0883d05df0e1658ac388
> > (soname bump is an ABI change)
> >
> > I haven't seen even a "HEADS UP" mail about this.  Without a very good reason,
> > this is far from acceptable in EPEL.
>
> Agree - it should be dropped from EPEL-testing.
>
> > BTW, looks like this update is on its way to Fedora too, it'll break even more
> > packages there.  And not even a heads up mail seen on fedora-devel either.
> >
> > Please explain?
I was about to post something along the same line and I actually mailed 
perl-XML-Xerces upstream yesterday. There is no perl-XML-Xerces version 
that can be compiled against xerces-c-2.8.0 and there won't be in the 
near future.
http://marc.info/?l=xerces-p-dev&m=120277940726111&w=2

> Sorry for this. I just forgot to mention about this incompatibility
> during mass rebuilds for gcc4.3. I'll revoke requests for update from
> F-7 and F-8 ASAP.
>
> I want to keep new version for devel-branch though.
Even if the soname bump is a no-no for EPEL, there's no way to update 
the perl package in Fedora either, so I'd be very grateful if the 
xerces-c update never hits Fedora stable. I don't really care about 
devel, but the perl package will likely remain broken there until 
xerces-3.0.

Regards,
Xavier