[Coin-discuss] yet another forgotten so-name change?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:21 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:40 +0100, Stefan Vigerske wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > >> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > >>> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:54 +0100, Stefan Vigerske wrote:
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > >>>>> I was trying to get coinutils up-to-date but uploading version 2.6.0 to
> > >>>>> debian caused build failures in almost all other coin packages (see
> > >>>>> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=sonne@debian.org )
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> One of the reasons is that coinutils forgets to install CoinOslC.h
> > >>>> I merged a fix from trunk to stable/2.6 for this issue. Do you need a
> > >>>> new release now?
> > >>> Yes thanks, that would help! Can you do that immediately? Or should I
> > >>> for the time being just copy that file?
> > >> There is a 2.6.1 now.
> > > 
> > > where? It is not here yet
> > > http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/CoinUtils/ ?
> > 
> > That may take a day or so.
> > It's in the svn: https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinUtils/browser/releases
> > svn checkout https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinUtils/releases/2.6.1
> 
> The tarball creator runs nightly.
> 
> > 
> > >>>>> But in addition coinor-osi fails to build since some things changed in
> > >>>>> the API right?
> > >>>> Yes. Osi 0.102 should work with CoinUtils 2.6.
> > >>> But why not 0.100.2 ...?
> 
> Policy says that an API change requires at least a minor version bump.
> Bug fixes that don't change the API get point releases.
> 
> I don't recall exactly what changed in each minor version update, but
> that's how it's designed to work.

OK then, but how can I figure out which versions of packages are
required to get package X to work and how do I know that updating one
will break the whole chain? 

What I need is some kind of table saying e.g.

coinor-osi 0.102.1 requires coinutils 2.6, libclp 1.11 
...
and in addition proper soname changes if you change things incompatibly
such that an upload of coinutils 2.6 won't break things that depend on
2.5...

Soeren
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