On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:33:19AM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:14, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > For upgrading readline to a new major release (in Fedora
> > development), do I need to provide a readline4 package, or is it
> > sufficient to just rebuild the packages that depend on it?
>
> A compat library may be nice, considering the number of apps that
> link against it.
Check ABI compat within pkg first. Eg, you can link python 1.5 against
db4 cuz db4 has db1-ish stuff still. Reduction of compat madness is
optimal.
No, the soname has definitely changed incompatibly. I'll have a go at
making a readline43 package.
Tim.
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