Re: vlc 2.0

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Arnaldo Russo <[email protected]>wrote:

> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >
> > I upgraded libxcb to 1.7 in rhel6 and F12 and so far so good (sonames are
> > the same).
> > Fedora rules are against static links, but on the other I am
> > upgrading a core package.
>
> Yes, that's exactly the reason why I chose to include xcb statically in vlc
> 2.0, I think upgrading a core RHEL library like xcb is quite risky and far
> less desireable than breaking the no-static-libs rule.
>
>
Maybe if we change the test for the minimum libxcb from 1.6 to 1.5 nothing
will change.

This is the changelog for libxcb:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/libxcb/ChangeLog?view=markup

I see only bug fixes...

Even if we build using 1.7, vlc installs on systems with 1.5, because
there is no difference whatsoever in the sonames.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ