[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:


> >> Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary
> >> rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors.

> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128

> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely
> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this
> kind of breakage.

Hmmmm. I've been working on my ebuild and end-o-mentoring quizes:: so in
that vein, should not the gentoo dev have bumped the gentoo rev numbers, or
did I miss-read the gentoo docs?




> Everybody should be on the lookout for this update and carefully
> follow the forum post instructions to get through it.


Again, in light of the dev-quizes, should not the package maintainer have
posted a news item prior/simultaneously to the new package release?


Not trying to stir things up, just scratching many itches here on the
dev-quizes. Surely we are all human(oid) and thus forginving of our
comrades....even to the point of encouragement?



quizfully,
James