Bug 421643

Summary:	net-libs/neon: drop ewarn messages telling people to downgrade neon
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	414997

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-06-17 18:54:56 UTC

We currently get this message:

WARN: postinst
Neon has a policy of breaking API across minor versions, this means
that any package that links against Neon may be broken after
updating. They will remain broken until they are ported to the
new API. You can downgrade Neon to the previous version by doing:

  emerge --oneshot '<net-libs/neon-0.29'

You may also have to downgrade any package that has not been
ported to the new API yet.

But:
1. If any other package in the tree requires older versions, probably neon should be slotted
2. Most of the problems would be solved simply running revdep-rebuild, no?
3. Newer neon versions should be stabilized when depending packages are ported to new API

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-09-05 17:44:43 UTC

+  05 Sep 2012; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -neon-0.29.6.ebuild,
+  neon-0.29.6-r1.ebuild:
+  Drop suggestion to manually downgrade package as explained in bug #421643,
+  drop old.
+