[oe] [PATCH] openssl: update 1.0.0 to 1.0.0a

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/17 Roman I Khimov <roman at khimov.ru>:
> В сообщении от Понедельник 16 августа 2010 23:35:59 автор Khem Raj написал:
>> IMO the newest version in a recipe should always be default preference
>> this way we can
>> stabilize recipe upgrades quicker. This also means a wider testing
>> before pushing a new recipe
>> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" makes it to escape the testing.
>
> Well, consider Perl, for example. Making 5.10.1 a default preference would
> break binary packaged perl modules built for 5.8.8, so technically some
> massive PR bump (most probably DISTRO_PR) is needed when updating to 5.10.1.
> Forcing distro maintainers to do that is not nice, IMO.
>
> Although the way it is now Perl 5.10.1 seems to be rarely used, which is also
> not nice. Probably, there is no way to solve this problem for everyone. With
> D_P it's not used much, removing D_P is asking for "YOU BROKE MY BUILD!!!"
> love messages from random corners.

We really need a mechanism that takes changes of all lower versions
into account.
This has been discussed before. I seem to recall that RP had some ideas on that.

Removing D_P is not too nice for the reasons you specify (and bumping
DISTRO_PR for all distro's in unison is hard too (and some distro's do
not seem to be that acive).
A distro could decide to go there on its own by pinning to 5.10.1 and
do a DISTRO_PR bump. It would already help if the major distro's did
this.

Frans