Re: Obsolete dependency report, 2015-May-15 [GOLDSTAR]

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 5/17/2015 10:38 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 10:56 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > I am uploading the dependencies of singular now and testing Yue's last
> > monolithic proposal. If it passes the test as expected I will also
> > upload both archs during weekend.
>
> Wonderful!  Thank you very much for helping with this.
>
>
> As singular-surf is replaced by surf (and not singular), I moved the
> former under the latter instead.  Because surf has a lower version
> though, the usual cygport OBSOLETES mechanism doesn't help, so I added
> an empty 9999-1 upgrade helper manually.

I missed this your mail, but I saw the change in the structure.
Thanks

> WRT HDF5 in particular, as the primary consumer thereof, you way want to
> consider only shipping an SONAME version bump in coordination with a new
> release or rebuild of netcdf and octave.  After all, a "fixed" newer
> version doesn't really help anyone if an SONAME change means nobody is
> using it yet.

Yah
I am upgrading hdf5 and octave this time but is a mere
coincidence of release date.

I will postpone any further hdf5 release

> OTOH you're probably not the only one complaining about this.  Is there
> an upstream forum for packagers where you could mention the difficulties
> this involves, or chime in on others' who have already mentioned the
> same?

http://lists.hdfgroup.org/pipermail/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org/2015-April/008481.html

Unfortunately they seems to NOT understand the concept of stable API.

Regards
Marco