Message-ID: <55d3ac8d8a6e05eee153df15adfedf746f511298.camel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Implement versioned names for major libraries to ease upgrade
 process
From: maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Cc: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 02:56:22 -0300
in-reply-to: <e0242ec7182e8cf12eae9f14ed142fd25621d780.camel@cogitri.dev>
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Hello

I have done the boost upgrade to 1.75.0, and the subsequent rebuild of
all its reverse dependencies, with the help from J0WI:

1. Rebasing J0WI's Merge request was a chore on its own as things get
outdated by other changes, when rebasing 107! commits more than half
had conflicts and some were lost.
2. CI failed to build the whole thing so we had to go with knowledge
there would be failures, and there were lots of failures.
3. The builders were clogged for 3-4 hours at minimum.
4. Thankfully other developers/contributors stepped up to bump packages
that were missed.

So I have made a merge request[1] to make boost into boost1.75 to ease
the upgrade process.

I want to do this for other packages that have **huge** amount of
reverse dependencies and packages where upstream supports parallel
installing (by having headers in namespaced directories
(/usr/include/foo-1.0) and libraries namespaced themselves
(/usr/lib/libfoo-1.0.so.1).

Regards
Leo

[1]:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/16894