From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PojjH-0005fw-Oo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:43:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4FCDE0AAE; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526A9E0A9E for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EEE1B404D for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:42:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:42:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4D556603.8040400@gentoo.org> <201102131422.04669.vapier@gentoo.org> <1297628218.26116.8.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> In-Reply-To: <1297628218.26116.8.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3276868.0hORWtNqG0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102131642.45234.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7b38ef2a851a0c62cc51af387f957dbc --nextPart3276868.0hORWtNqG0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday, February 13, 2011 15:16:58 Diego Elio Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > Il giorno dom, 13/02/2011 alle 14.22 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: > > thus it's a lot more sane in the long term to assume that packages > > support the latest rather than patching everyone (and being forced to > > carry those custom patches indefinitely) to set the ceiling at the last > > "known" working version. >=20 > Okay so what would you think of installing the headers and .pc files for > the "previous ABI" slotted packages? It would extend a bit more the > non-latest, but wouldn't stray far from what we've done up to now, and > we'd have a proof of concept to show upstream how to implements the > fallbacks... then we could probably talk some of them to do just that. i'm not sure how this is really any different from an arbitrary number of=20 parallel slots. =2Dmike --nextPart3276868.0hORWtNqG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJNWFBVAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBvGwQAJIWYXAZP3zkU0PAutJDcSgd d0axiVt4+pIEuTtYkBo1s6pc5U/B+uZ3I+yN0izeoTskn7If7ddYrkK88vq/q6xn WSy+pYwxHIBCjy5zBjx/rmraHxX9hXF2n5EYRujzZb27MYlEHMGFLPUTpMvAzKYl 39BLlwM8SaZZw314iAG7WBvYChyv1Lrkp2OcxGxZOvL04WfWqQqF1Gv3fUh9oIdE pPRlkzM8pvAO45SXe0dpmXLnaGv1v+oMVr3WM+HbwJ5Y4fbkBttdUHracYKE7eht X/eTaEs4dEjZiiDo8pJzOy1F+ZjflWGFnhmZNarYXPucLkmlmv4+spvb71+kst+J ArzUchFYtr3+c/sOz1M4a5vqEVUQByfGgImisl3MdbblysUjHdMfvg3J4nikAfqQ J4nJiDMj2GCnj0OSrgmD2e0XhWlJa8Qkk56GxMarJXl16vgmBvM90M7CEbsmiqP9 qr5Yg48/aEoUu5JcvRAfWiSSrGsZ4Tzj0WQesVwSe4Ja6gFHj8VBFDQgPJkZ0aEI Vztazbnz0PfNPSF4M0jTWelahAGBfQpEdgMleh40A9Y+abz8zthkbgmn5Dxr5Mbf FVO8mRiVYa82BWjBMu1n3y4fxvmuL+aPgL8o1JqUhzA2oQQo1Eqbj3ZL0okC1kG7 AUhRUwnOA+8Thhv6/WJh =XWzj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3276868.0hORWtNqG0--