[arch-dev-public] Upcoming gpm soname bump

[Eric Belanger]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Eric Belanger wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:55 -0400, Eric Belanger wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> My gpm package is out-of-date and the new version has a soname bump. I'll
>>> do the rebuilds, at least for x86_64. If someone has time and would be
>>> willing to do the i686 packages, let me know. That'll save me some work.
>>> Otherwise, I'll build them after the x86_64 ones.
>>> The following packages have gpm as a depends (except
>>> gstreamer0.10-good-plugins) and will be rebuilt:
>>> 
>>> aalib
>>> brltty - Current package is out-of-date and new version has soname bump.
>>>           Only orca depends on it so I could update it and rebuild orca.
>>>          Jan: what do you think? Or would it be better to just rebuild 
>>> brltty?
>> Updating it would be nice, it's on my list of outdated packages for a
>> long while already. I don't know if a rebuild is required: brlapi.so is
>> dlopened from the python module included in orca. I don't know why they
>> bumped .soname, but if updating brltty breaks the braille module in
>> orca, it will still be broken after a rebuild anyways.
>
> OK, I'll look into it after I'm done with the i686 rebuilds.

I've updated the brltty in testing. Orca is still running fine as far as I 
can tell.

>
>> 
>>> elinks
>>> fte
>>> gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
>>> jed
>>> lde
>>> links
>>> mc - I need a mc directory in the 'other' directory on the ftp server to
>>>       put a patch (FS#9913). Eliott is aware of that but if another admin 
>>> has
>>>       time...
>> Didn't we all have permission to create directories in /other/? I never
>> use sudo to do so.
>
> You are right. I was able to create the directory.
>
>

So far no complaints (no positive feedback either)  for any of this stuff. 
I'll keep it in testing for another week before starting the signoff just 
to be safe.

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