libgdl soname breakage? (was Re: rawhide report: 20081025 changes)

[Mat Booth]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Alex Lancaster
<alexl at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Grr.  As fast as I try to swot down broken deps in rawhide in advance
> of the fast-approaching freeze, they keep popping up again.  A major
> culprit today appears to be:
>
>> libgdl-2.24.0-1.fc10
>> --------------------
>> * Fri Oct 24 18:00:00 2008 Debarshi Ray <rishi at fedoraproject.org> - 2.24.0-1
>> - Version bump to 2.24.0.
>> - Rpaths removed by upstream.
>> - libgdl-gnome-1.so has been dropped.
>
> which causes broken deps in several packages:
>
>>  Broken deps for i386
>>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>>       1:anjuta-2.4.2-1.fc10.i386 requires libgdl-gnome-1.so.0
>>       gnome-build-0.2.4-1.fc9.i386 requires libgdl-gnome-1.so.0
>>       gnome-python2-gdl-2.19.1-20.fc10.i386 requires libgdl-gnome-1.so.0
>
> Removing libgdl-gnome-1.so seems to be a rather drastic step,
> especially if these apps need it and it isn't provided by any other
> package.  Is this just a packaging error?  I note that Debarshi Ray
> who rebuilt libgdl is also the maintainer of 2 of the 3 broken
> packages: anjuta and gnome-build, so I assume that he'll hopefully
> have plan to fix this breakage. ;)
>
> Otherwise this change should probably be reverted.
>
> Again, please announce any ABI changes on f-d-l in advance.
>
> Alex
>

Yeah, Debarshi says he'll take care of Anjuta and gnome-build.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg02330.html

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