Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2010, 14:12:48 schrieb Ralf Haferkamp:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently thinking about upgrading our bdb packages to a new
> release. For that I just submitted libdb-4_8 (containing db-4.8.30)
> to devel:libraries:c_c++. Would be nice if somebody with sufficient
> privileges in devel:libraries:c_c++ could accept submit request #48969.
>
> The next step would be integration into Factory by submitting it to
> Factory and adding "Provides: libdb-devel" to libdb-4_8-devel while
> removing it from libdb-4_5-devel (I guess we still need to keep libdb-4_5
> around for some time) to make depended packages build against the new
> Version.
>
> But as history has shown libdb version updates can be a source of trouble
> so I'd like to ask what the best aproach would be to integrate it into
> Factory. In the pre-Buildservice times we had the "BETA" distribution to
> test those bigger changes. How is it handled nowadays? Is
> openSUSE:Factory:Staging comparable to BETA?
comparable, but better. You can submit your sources there and we can see.

What about the data format? any suprises or "just" API changes?

Greetings, Stephan
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