[Mageia-dev] OK to update libffi?

[Olivier Blin]

David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> writes:

> John Balcaen <mikala at ...> writes:
>> 2012/8/5 David Walser <luigiwalser at ...>:
>> > It has a new upstream version 3.0.11 available.  It builds fine here.
>> >
>> > The major number changes from 5 to 6 in this version, which is why I am
> asking if it is OK to update this package.
>> did you try it before ? (i mean at least rebuild major packages based on it? )
>
> No, but predicting what will build in Cauldron is a crapshoot at best anyway.
>
> I don't know exactly what this package does or even what most of the packages
> that require it are.  I just know that it's installed on my system and I don't
> want unmaintained stuff bitrotting away on my system, hence the interest.
>
> Hopefully someone with some insight can say yay or nay.

It looks safe to update, the major change seems to be mostly because
some debug functions are not exported anymore.

Our biggest users are glib, mesa, wayland, python and llvm.
They will have to be rebuilt.

Go for it, if you can handle rebuilding all its dependencies.

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Olivier Blin - blino