[repo-coord] Re: GD >= 2.0 for pre FC2 ?

[Bent Terp]

[moved to repo-coord list, due to more general issues popping up]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:39, Axel Thimm wrote:
> OK, unfortunatley I did not write up why I had to withdraw it.

It's perfectly - redhat has version "ancient" of a package, we need
version "modern" and you give it to us. Then new redhat release with
"modern" and you retire your package.
Unfortunately, the fedoralegacy boys will only do bugfixes, no backports
so to speak.

So, I've been wondering if there should be a "backport" repo to cover
situations like these. If one adopts the blessed-by-Fedora(tm)
releasetags, then it should be safe enough, i.e. the "official" gd for
FC2 is gd-2.0.21-3 and so the backport would be 2.0.21-0.fdr.3 (or
0.fdr.4 if the first build fails....)

Sometimes you can get away with using "ancient" libraries for your new
apps, but often you can't and so without "backport" the new apps will be
broken for older archs.

>  I built
> a more recent version of gd

Well, here you go again ;-) "Support for GIF was restored in gd 2.0.28
on July 21st, 2004.". We'd like that please....

> Sorry for breaking biorpms :(

Well, it's basically my own fault - as I'm too lazy to cover the entire
dependency gap between redhat's releases and my apps, I am vulnerable to
such package retirements by you, or Dag, or Matthias, or Rex, or ....

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        Bent Terp <Bent.Terp at biosci.ki.se>
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