On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 09:53:19AM -0700, stan wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:04:41 -0500
"Jared K. Smith" <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> ... Even if we didn't have
> this rule, it would be common courtesy to announce any change that
> causes others to have to do work, even if it's only for a few users.
What about an email list called fedora-soname-bump. If you are going
to do a soname bump, you send an email to that list with the library in
the subject line. Maybe, if it isn't a lot of work to find them, the
dependent packages are in the body of the message.
Subscription is voluntary, so if someone likes surprises, they don't
subscribe. But everybody sends their soname changes to the list,
subscribed or not.
I don't want to be notified about any random so-name bump. That'd be
mostly noise. But I *do* want to be notified about the ones that
matter for packages that I maintain. So, the right solution imho is
to write to fedora-devel and include the relevant maintainers in cc.
Zbyszek