Re: Gnokii on Fedora

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:55 +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Nov 28, 2007 3:50 PM, Bastien Nocera <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:46 +0200, Jari Turkia wrote:
> > > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > How is that irresponsible? Will I get sued for gross negligence for
> > > > doing that?
> > > >
> > > I don't think anybody here wants to sue anybody.
> > >
> > > This deep-water flame fishing is not necessary. I just expressed my
> > > concern about you giving out bad advice.
> >
> > Well, I'm the maintainer for gnokii in Fedora as Linus has other things
> > on his plate right now, so I think that I'm allowed to feel offended by
> > your remarks. And you didn't answer the question as to why it would be
> > "irresponsible".
> 
> If I may step in. While I think "irresponsible" is too hard word, I
> wouldn't recommend to anybody using gnokii 0.6.18.

Certainly better than breaking every app that relies on it in your
installation...

>  Seriously, we had a
> lot of bugfixes since then (yeah, I know you know that ;P). There are
> probably some niche users that won't notice any change, but still I'd
> suggest to use 0.6.22 (even if compiled by themself; but Jari prepares
> daily snapshot-rpms which are IMHO worth using).

I'll let you know soon how it goes. I expect quite a few packages
needing rebuilding after the recent ABI changes.

Cheers