RFC: Soname in rpm name
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jan 24 12:34:10 UTC 2005
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A question to packagers: what would you think of a policy to add the library
> soname in package libraries ? For example, I have a libkexif package, which
> provides libkexif.so.0, and at least 3 applications depend on it. Now there
> is an update to libkexif, which provides libkexif.so.1. I can't update
> libkexif without updating the applications depending on it.
In this particular case, my suggestion would be to bite the bullet and
upgrade libkexif and all apps that depend on it.
While were on the subjet of exif, any reason fedora-devel hasn't upgraded
to libexif-0.6.x yet? libkexif-0.2.1's configure scriptlet strongly
recommends it.
-- Rex
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